90 TABLEAU de la PLAINE de tROTE, 



The Grecian fleet was drawn on fliore at a place between 

 the two promontories. The diftance betwixt the two, according 

 to Strabo, (p. 890. B. 891. A.), w?.s 60 ftadia, (about two Ger- 

 man or nine Englilh miles), in a diretft conrfe by fea. The cur- 

 vature of the land, however, would increafe the diftance in keep- 

 ing along the fhore *. 



It is generally fuppofed, that the Grecian camp extended from 

 cape to cape. This notion involves very confiderable difficulty. 

 Had it done fo, the camp muft have reached beyond the Simois, 

 and the marfhes on both fides of it ; a circumftance by no 

 means probable, particularly as the ftream is fo apt to overflow; 

 and not the fmalleft trace occurs in Homer, either of the river 

 running through the camp, or of the left wing being ftationed 

 beyond the river. When Homer, therefore, fays', that the fhips 

 occupied the whole fhore f between the two promontories, he 

 probably fpeaks in a poetical ftyle, to convey a magnificent idea; 

 and it is more likely that the camp only ftretched on both fides 

 towards the promontories Rhoeteum and Sigeum, and that on 

 the north-eafl it extended to the Simois ij:. 



Within this fpace were the fhips of the Greeks hawled up 

 on the land, at a confiderable diftance from the Ihore, with their 

 fterns towards the land, and arranged in feveral rows ||. The 



rows, 



* D'Anville, in his defcription of the Hellefpont, (Memoires de V Academic 

 des Infer iptiom, torn. XXIV. p. 329.), allows only half the diftance ; M. Cheva- 

 lier does the fame, (Ch. VIII.), on the authority of the paflage in Pliny, (V. 33.),! 

 where the diftance is reckoned from -ffiianteum. Still, however, it is a contefted 

 point, -what part of the coaft muft properly be regarded as Rhoeteum. 



-}• Iliad, XIV, 35' ■ y.a) wXyja-uv kmaa-ti 



Hl'o'va; arTofta. ytiy.pov, o<Toy cviiigyiiav ccKgdu 



He does not exprefsly name either Sigeum or Rhoeteum -, on the contrary, he al- 

 ways places the camp on the Hellefpont, in the more extenfive fignification of that 

 term, as meaning the northern part of the ^Egean Sea. 



% See above, p. 57, 58. D. 



II The fliips are therefore faid to have ftood ^poV^«a5-«(, (XIV. 35.), parallel and 

 behind one another, like the fteps of a ladder. That this is the meaning wc learn 

 from Herodotus, (VII. 188.). 



