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rows, however, muft have been drawn backwards, according to 

 the oblique diredlion of the whole camp, from the north towards 

 Sigeum. Behind the foremofl row of the fliips the troops were 

 encamped, fo that the fhips themfelves mufl have ferved for a 

 kind of rampart, as is plain from a comparifon of different paf» 

 fages *. In the rear of the left wing mufl have been the marfhes 

 called Stomalimne. Strabo affigns particular names to feveral 

 parts of the coafl, though he has not put them down in geogra- 

 phical order f. As only one part of the coaft bears the name of 

 Station of the feet, it may perhaps be inferred from this, that the 

 Grecian camp occupied only a part of the beach. 



The fhips flood in the order in which they had been drawn 

 alhore. The vefTels of Protesilaus, accordingly, occupied the 

 foremofl place ; and next to them were the fliips of Ajax, the 

 fon of Telamon. (Iliad, Xlll. 681. XV. 706, &c.). Ajax was 

 flationed towards Rhoeteum, confequently on the left wing of 

 the camp ; Achilles, with his Myrmidons, on the right to- 

 wards Sigeum J. In regard to the two extremities there is no 

 doubt ; but the arrangement in the intermediate fpace cannot 

 be fo exacflly afcertained ; unlefs, perhaps, thus far : Near to Ajax, 

 and farther to the right, lay Idomeneus, with the Cretans, 



m 2 (Iliad„ 



• Iliad, XV. 6si, &c. 408. 426. XIV. 34. 



•)• Strabo, (XIII. 890. A.). " After Rhoeteum follows Sigeum, a town in 

 " ruins, then the ftation of the fleet, (to tia.iicrTxtji.a>), and fhe harbour of the Greeks, 

 " (i A^aiS, >.i^i,), and the Grecian camp, (ro A^^iv.iv orgaToVsJov), and Stomalimne, 

 " and the mouth of the Scamander, (viz. of the Scamander united with the Simois), 

 " then the promontory of Sigeum." Compare Mela, I. 19. Pliny, V. 30. 33. 



t Iliad, XI. ad init. It is true that in XVII. 432. it is faid, that the hor- 

 fes of Achilles would not return without Patroclus to the Hellefpont, a^)/ l-jri 

 «»«! EK-! ^hicTvi ' E.xxi(r7rtiTiy. But this whole northern arm of the .(Egean Sea, before 

 the entrance of the flrait, is more than once called the Hellefpont. (Iliad, XVIII. 



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