172 Remarks on the Site of Troy 
The Throsmos. 
Tue Throsmos was a hill or rising ground, 
in front of the Grecian camp, on which the 
Trojans encamped for the night after the se- 
cond and third battles. 
Rennell supposes the Throsmos to be merely 
a rise in the beach, such as is found on the 
sea shore in a flat country ;(10) but besides 
that no such rise exists on the Trojan plain, 
the distance of the Throsmos from the Greek 
camp, as we collect from the Iliad, is much too 
great for Rennell’s supposition, and had any 
such rise existed, it would have been included 
within the ramparts. 
Sir W. Gell supposes the heights behind 
Sigeum to be the Throsmos, but even these 
are too near the Grecian camp, and a deci- 
sive objection to this notion is, that the 
Throsmos indubitably lay on the Grecian 
left, whilst Sigeum lies on the right. An at- 
tentive perusal of the tenth book will convince 
the most prejudiced person of this fact, and 
it is not an unimportant one.(11) 
(10) “ Observations, &ec.” page 99. 
(11) Agamemnon, Nestor, and Ulysses, whose quarters lay near 
the centre of the fleet, send some of those who are to be present at the 
council, to rouse Ajax and Idomeneus, whose ships were at Rheteum, 
desiring those chiefs to remain at their station till the rest arrive at the 
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