APPENDIX, No. III. 91 



rows, however, muft have been drawn backwards, according to 

 the oblique diretftion of the whole camp, from the north towards 

 Sigeum. Behind the foremoft row of the fliips the troops were 

 encamped, fo that the fliips themfelves muft have ferved for a 

 kind of rampart, as is plain from a comparifon of different paf- 

 fages *. In the rear of the left wing muft have been the marfhes 

 called StomallmnL Strabo afligns particular names to feveral 

 parts of the coaft, though he has not put them down in geogra- 

 phical order f. As only one part of the coaft bears the name of 

 Station of the fleet, it may perhaps be inferred from this, that the 

 Grecian camp occupied only a part of the beach. 



The fhips ftood in the order in which they had been drawn 

 afhore. The veflels of Protesilaus, accordingly, occupied the 

 foremoft place ; and next to them were the fliips of Ajax, the 

 fon of Telamon. (Iliad, XIII. 681. XV. 706, Sec). Ajax was 

 ftationed towards Rhoeteum, confequently on the left wing of 

 the camp ; Achilles, with his Myrmidons, on the right to- 

 wards Sigeum ij:. In regard to the two extremities there is no 

 doubt ; but the arrangement in the intermediate fpace cannot 

 be fo exadlly afcertained ; unlefs, perhaps, thus far : Near to Aj ax, 

 and farther to the right, lay Idomeneus, with the Cretans, 



PI 2 (Iliad^ 



* Iliad, XV. 6$^, dec 408. 426. XIV, 34. 



f Strabo, (XIII. 890. A.). " After Rhceteum follows Sigeum, a town in 

 " ruins, then the ftation of the fleet, (to Nauo-T«0/A«y"), and the harbour of the Greeks,, 

 " G -^x*'^' '^'/*«0' ^^^ ^h^ Grecian camp, (to Ap^^iviy a-rgaroVs^ev), and Stomalimne, 

 " and the mouth of the Scamander, (viz, of the Scamander united with the Simois), 

 " then the promontory of Sigeum." Compare Mela, I. 19. Pliny, V. 30. 33. 



X iLiAD, XI. ad init. It is true that in XVII. 432. it is faid, that the hor- 

 fes of Achilles would not return without Patroclus to the Hellefpont, «%!/ !«•< 

 »M«5 eir} ■sAaT^n 'EAA«<r5rovT»i'. But this whoIc northern arm of the ^gean Sea, before 

 the entrance of the ftrait, is more than once called the Hellefpont. (Iliad, XVIIL. 



