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The Grecian fleet was drawn on fliore at a place between 

 the two promontories. The diftance betwixt the two, according 

 to Strabo, (p. 890. B. 891. A.), was 60 ftadia, (about two Ger- 

 man or nine Englifh miles), in a dire(5t courfe by fea. The cur- 

 vature of the land, however, would increafe the diftance in keep- 

 ing along the fliore *. 



It is generally fuppofed, that the Grecian camp extended from 

 cape to cape. This notion involves very confiderable difficulty. 

 Had it done fo, the camp mufl; have reached beyond the Simois, 

 and the marflies on both fides of it ; a circumftance by no 

 means probable, particularly as the ftream is fo apt to overflow; 

 and not the fmalleft trace occurs in Homer, either of the river 

 running through the camp, or of the left wing being ftationed 

 beyond the river. When Homer, therefore, fays', that the fliips 

 occupied the whole fliore \ between the two promontories, he 

 probably fpeaks in a poetical ftyle, to convey a magnificent idea; 

 and it is more likely that the camp only ftretched on both fides 

 towards the promontories Rhoeteum and Sigeum, and that on 

 the north-eafl: it extended to the Simois f . 



Within this fpace were the fliips of the Greeks hawled up 

 on the land, at a confiderable difl:ance from the fliore, with their 

 fl:erns towards the land, and arranged in feveral rows ||. The 



rows, 



* D'Anvili.e, in his defcription of the Hellefpont, (Memoires de r Academic 

 dss hifcriptions, torn. XXIV. p. 329.), allows only half the diftance ; M. Cheva- 

 lier does the fame, (Ch. Vlll.), on the authority of the paflage in Pliny, (V. 33.),! 

 where the diftance is reckoned from .lEanteiim. Still, however, it is a contefted 

 point, what part of the coaft mud properly be regarded as Rhoeteum. 



■j- Iliad, XIV. 35. — — ^-^— — — — y.ut iiWviitu)/ icnatriiii 



He does not exprefsly name either Sigeum or Rhoeteum ; on the contrary, he al- 

 ways places the camp on the Hellefpont, in the more extenfive lignification of that 

 term, as meaning the northern part of the iEgean Sea. 



J See above, p. 57, 58. D. 



II The fliips are therefore faid to have flood 7rfix(<>7cxi, (XIV. 35.), parallel and 

 behind one another, like the fteps of a ladder. That this is the meaning we learn 

 from Herodotus, (VII. 188.). 



