And on the Trojan Plain. 187 
or must have travelled alongside it till he 
reached the ford, both which suppositions are 
out of unison with Homer’s description.(20) 
But in the eleventh book we find a des- 
cription of the field of battle, and transactions 
occurring in the course of it, which appear 
clearly to prove that the Scamander dis- 
charged itself at Sigeum. Ulysses in assisy_ 
ing Diomed is wounded near the tomb of 
Ilus, when Ajax comes to his relief, and in 
his turn attacks the Trojans. Here then we 
have Ajax fighting near the tomb of Ilus,(21) 
which stood near the Throsmos, and this we 
have'seen lay on the Grecian left, or eastern 
side of the plain. 
When, therefore, the poet remarks imme- 
diately after, alluding to the slaughter made 
by Ajax, 
““Whereof Hector yet 
“Heard not, for on the left of all the war 
“He fought beside Scamander,”’ 
Iliad XI, 603. 
(20) Had Hector been near the Scamander his attendants would not 
have conveyed him all the way to the Fords, as their only object seems 
to have been the procuring of water, and that being obtained they proceed- 
with him no farther. 
(21) The Tomb of Ilus was not very far from the Throsmos, for we 
read that Hector and his Council retired thither out of reach of the noise 
of their own army, then encamped on the Throsmos. (Book V. 475.) 
From other parts of the Iliad we find that it was not very far from 
