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who, he says,
came from Arisbe, from the river Selleïs in a chariot drawn by large
and furious coursers;
implying by these words that Arisbe was the royal seat of
Asius, whence, he says, he came,
drawn by coursers from the river Selleis.
But these places are so little known, that writers do not agree
among themselves about their situation, except that they are
near Abydos, Lampsacus, and Parium, and that the name of
the last place was changed from Percope to Percote.
21
With respect to the rivers, the poet says that the Selleis flows near Arisbe, for Asius came from Arisbe and the
river Selleis. Practius is a river, but no city of that name, as
some have thought, is to be found. This river runs between
Abydos and Lampsacus; the words, therefore,
and dwelt near Practius,
must be understood of the river, as these expressions of the
poet,
they dwelt near the sacred waters of Cephisus, note
Il. iv. 522.
they occupied the fertile land about the river Parthenius. note
Il. ii. 254.who was the maternal uncle of the hero Hector, own brother of Hecu-
ba, and son of Dymas who lived in Phrygia on the banks of the Sangarius. note
22
Abydos was founded by Milesians by permission of Gyges, king of Lydia; for those places and the whole of the Troad were under his sway. There is a promontory near
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Strabo, Geography (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Str.].