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the river Evenus, 011 the banks of which stood 

 Lyrnesus and Miletos, both now in ruins. In this 

 region is Mount Ida, and on the coast Adraniytteos, 

 formerly called Pedasus, which has given its nanie to 

 the bay and to the jurisdiction, and the rivers 

 Astron, Cornialos, Crianos, Alabastros, and Holy 

 River coniing from Mount Ida ; inland are Mount 

 Gargara and the town of the same name. On the 

 coast again are Antandros previously called Edonis, 

 then Cimmeris, and Assos, which is the same as 

 Apollonia ; and formerly there was also the town 

 of Palamedium. Then Cape Lectum which marks 

 the frontier between the AeoHd and the Troad ; also 

 there was once the city-state of Polymedia, and 

 Chrysa and another Larisa : the temple of Zmintheus 

 still stands. Colone inland has disappeared. 

 Adramytteos is resorted to for legal business by 

 the people of Apollonia on the river Rhyndacus, 

 the Eresi, MiletopoUtae, Poemaneni, Macedonian 

 Asculacae, Polichnaei, Pionitae, the Cilician Man- 

 dacandeni, the Mysian peoples known as the Abret- 

 teni and the Hellespontii, and others of no note. 



XXXIII. The first place in the Troad is Hamaxitus, The Troad, 

 then come Cebrenia, and thcn Troas itself, formerly a'ifj^^i„g 

 called Antigonia and now Alexandria, a Roman rcgions. 

 colony ; the town of Nee ; the navigable river 

 Scamander ; and on a promontory was formerly the 

 town of Sigeum. Then the Harbour of the Achaeans, 

 into which flows the Xanthus unitcd with the Simois, 

 and the Palaescamander, which previously forms a 

 marsh. Of the rest of the places celebrated in Ilomer, 

 Rhesus, Heptaporus, Caresus, Rhodius, no traces 

 remain ; and the Granicu.s flows by a different route 

 into the Sea of Marmara. However there is even 



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