168 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
«The centre ship conspicuous: thence his 
voice 
“Might reach the most remote of all the line, 
«At each extreme, where Ajax and the son 
“Of Peleus, fearless of surprise, and strong 
“In conscious valour, flanked the tented 
field. 
Iliad VIIT, 252. 
From circumstances stated elsewhere it 
appears equally certain, that the flank oc- 
cupied by Achilles was the Grecian right, or 
the side next Sigeum; that by Ajax, the left 
flank, next Rheeteum. 
The station of Nestor is a point of some 
importance, as we shall see presently. It 
was not very far from that of Ulysses, (X. 
163.) but must have lain more on the side 
of Rheteum than Sigeum, for we read (X. 
978) that Patroclus on his way to Achilles 
at Sigeum, in returning from the tent of 
Nestor, has to pass through the forum and by 
the ships of Ulysses which occupied the cen- 
tre. The stations of Agamemnon and Mene- 
laus (X. 30 to 376) appear to have been 
near each other, and near that of Nestor, 
and, as might be expected, not far from the 
centre of the fleet, and the vicinity of the 
forum. 
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