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the commencement of the bay, where, according to the poet, note the Leleges were first settled. 50
I have spoken before of the Leleges, and I shall now
add that the poet speaks of a Pedasus, a city of theirs which
was subject to Altes;
Altes, king of the war-loving Leleges governs
Il. xxi. 86.
The lofty Pedasus on the river Satnioeis: noteAjax pierced with his spear Satnius, the son of Oenops, whom the beautiful nymph Naïs bore to Oenops, when he tended herds on the banks of
the Satnioeis. note
And in another place;
Oenops dwelt on the banks of the smooth-flowing Satnioeis
In lofty Pedasus. note
Later writers called it Satioeis, and some writers Saphnioeis.
It is a great winter torrent, which the poet, by mentioning it,
made remarkable. These places are continuous with the
districts Dardania and Scepsia, and are as it were another
Dardania, but lower than the former.
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The country comprised in the districts of Antandria, Cebrene, Neandria, and the Hamaxitus, as far as the sea opposite to Lesbos, now belongs to the people of Assus and Gargara. note
The Neandrians are situated above Hamaxitus on this side Lectum, but more towards the interior, and nearer to Ilium, from which they are distant 130 stadia. Above these people are the Cebrenii, and above the Cebrenii the Dardanii, extending as far as Palaescepsis, and even to Scepsis.
The poet Alcaeus calls Antandrus a city of the Leleges:
First is Antandrus, a city of the Leleges.
Demetrius of Scepsis places it among the adjacent cities, so
that it might be in the country of the Cilicians, for these
people are rather to be regarded as bordering upon the Le-
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