Greek Texts & Translations

and Sestos. ^note Between Abydos and Lectum ^note is the country about Ilium, and Tenedos and Alexandreia Troas. ^note Above all these is the mountain Ida, extending as far as Lectum. From Lectum to the river Caïcus ^note and the Canae mountains as they are called is the district comprising Assus, ^note Adramyttium, ^note Atarneus, ^note Pitane, ^note and the Elaïtic bay, opposite to all which places lies the island Lesbos. ^note Next follows the country about Cyme ^note as far as Hermus, ^note and Phocaea, ^note where Ionia begins, and Aeolis terminates. Such then is the nature of the country.

The poet implies that it was the Trojans chiefly who were divided into eight or even nine bodies of people, each forming a petty princedom, who had under their sway the places about Aesepus, and those about the territory of the present Cyzicene, as far as the river Caïcus. The troops of auxiliaries are reckoned among the allies. 3

The writers subsequent to Homer do not assign the same boundaries, but introduce other names, and a greater number of territorial divisions. The Greek colonies were the cause of this; the Ionian migration produced less change, for it was further distant from the Troad, but the Aeolian colonists occasioned it throughout, for they were dispersed over the whole of the country from Cyzicene as far as the Caïcus, and occupied besides the district between the Caïcus and the river Hermus. It is said that the Aeolian preceded the Ionian migration four generations, but it was attended with delays, and the settlement of the colonies took up a longer time. Orestes was the leader of the colonists, and died in Arcadia. He was preceded by his son Penthilus, who advanced as far as Thrace, sixty years ^note after the Trojan