Greek Texts & Translations

so that this country also was part of the Troad, and the subsequent tract as far as Adrasteia, for it was governed by the two sons of Merops of Percote. ^note
Il. ii. 831.

All therefore were Trojans from Abydos to Adrasteia, divided, however, into two bodies, one governed by Asius, the other by the Meropidae, as the country of the Cilicians is divided into the Thebaic and the Lyrnessian Cilicia. To this district may have belonged the country under the sway of Eurypylus, for it follows next to the Lyrnessis, or territory of Lyrnessus. ^note

That Priam ^note was king of all these countries the words with which Achilles addresses him clearly show; we have heard, old man, that your riches formerly consisted in what