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 394 STRABO. CASAUB. 619. des, Perdiccas, and to this word in the verse of Simonides, " with clothes dripping with wet," (TropdaKoiaiv for cka/3poxoic.,) and in the old comedy somewhere, " the country is iropdaKov, for Xijj.vdov, or ' marshy/ " Lesbos is at the same distance, rather less than 500 stadia, from Tenedos, Lemnos, and Chios. CHAPTER III. 1. SINCE there subsisted so great an affinity among the Leleges and Cilicians with the Trojans, the reason is asked, why these people are not included in Homer's Catalogue. Per- haps it is that, on account of the loss of their leaders and the devastation of the cities, the few Cilicians that were left placed themselves under the command of Hector. For Eetion and his sons are said to have been killed before the Catalogue is mentioned ; " The hero Achilles," says Andromache, "killed my father, and destroyed Thebe, with its lofty gates, the city of the Cilicians." " I had seven brothers in the palace ; all of them went in one day to Hades, for they were all slain by the swift-footed divine Achilles." 1 Those also under the command of Mynes had lost their leaders, and their city ; " He slew Mynes, and Epistrophus, And destroyed the city of the divine Mynes." 2 He describes the Leleges as present at the battles ; " on the sea-coast are Carians, and Peeonians with curved bows, Leleges, and Caucones." 3 And in another place, " he killed Satnius with a spear the son of Enops, whom a beautiful nymph Neis bore to Enops, when he was tending herds near the banks of Satnioeis,"* for they had not been so completely annihilated as to prevent II. vi. 414, 421. 2 II. ii. 692 xix. 29G. 3 11. x. 428. * II. xiv. 443.