And on the Trojan Plain. 173 
We have already shown that the distance 
from the sea to the ramparts was considerable, 
not less, probably, than half a mile, and if 
we carefully examine what passed between 
the Trojan army on the Throsmos, and the 
Grecian in its camp, on the night after the 
second battle, we shall find that another half 
mile is barely sufficient to allot for the dis- 
tance from the ramparts to the Throsmos. 
In book thirteenth, 586 and 600 we read that 
the Trojans retreating from the ramparts to 
the Throsmos, to encamp there for the night, 
left a guard to watch lest the Greeks should 
escape secrelly, or should by stratagem attempt 
to reach the city, and surprise it in the absence 
of its army :—precautions altogether need- 
less, had the Throsmos, where the main body 
was encamped, been nearer than half a mile 
to the Grecian ramparts. The circumstance 
of the Grecian council being held (X. 212.) 
during the same night, in an open space 
without the ramparts also shows that the 
Trojan army must have been at a consider- 
able distance. 
same spot. When all are assembled, they immediately go forth at the 
gate nearest the quarters of Ajax. Had the Throsmos lain either facing 
the centre or right of the fleet, the chiefs would have gone out at some 
of the other gates, of which there were several. 
