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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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xes, was regarded as one of thegreatest feats of skill and labour :— Pama canit tumidum super aequora XerxemConstruxisse vias, multum cum pontibus ausus,Europamque Asiee, Sestonque admovit AbydoIncessitque fretum rapidi super Hellesponti.—Lrc. ii. 672.Tot potuere manus vel jungere Seston Abydo,Ingestoque solo Phrixeum elidere pontum.—Id. vi. 55. 3 Vel tua me Sestos vel te mea sumat Abydos.—Ov. Heroid. xviii. 127.Utque rogem de te, et scribam tibi, si quis AbydoVenerit, aut quaero, si quis Abydon eat.—Id. xix. 30. * Longus in angustum qua clauditur HellespontusIlion ardebat. Ov. Met. xiii. 407. = By Latin writers the place was usually called Troja ; the poets, however,frequently used the names Ilium, Ilion, and Hios : e. g.0 divum domus Iliinn, et inclyta hello Mcenia Dardanidum. Yirg. .^n. ii. 241. Ilion aspicies, firmataque turribus altis Moenia, Phoebeae structa canore lyrae.—Ov. Heroid. xvi. 179,Non semel BiosYexata. Hor. Od. iv. 9, 18. Chap. VII. COUNTEY ABOUT TKOY. 97
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ANC. GEOG. 98 MYSIA, ^YITH ^OLIS. Book II. 12 stadia distant from the sea; others at a spot more to the S.E.,distant 42 stadia from the sea, now named Bunarhashi: the formeropinion has in its favour the voice of antiquity, dovm to the time ofDemetrius of Scepsis and Strabo, and must be received as most pro-bably the correct view. The town is described in the Iliad as situatedon rising groimd ^ between the rivers Simois and Scamanderto theS.E. rose a hill, a spur of Ida, on which stood the acropolis namedPergamum, containing temples and palaces: the city was sun^oundedwith walls, and one of the gates leading to the X.W. was named theSc8ean or left gate. The town was believed to have been destroyedabout B.C. 1184, and rebuilt at a later period, with the title of XewIlium, in which ^olian colonists settled. This was probably theplace which was visited by Xerxes, Alexander, and Julius Ceesar, andwhich, as the representative of the ancient Troy,^ was enlarged andfavoured by the Romans. Dur

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