J 18 PLAIN OF TROY. 
CHAP, makinof no mention of the fane; but Strabo, 
IV. ° "^ 
v_-v > who expressly alludes to the temple, places it 
in the Iliensian city'. But whence originated 
the sanctity of this remarkable spot, still shaded 
by a grove of venerable oaks, beneath whose 
branches a multitude of votive offerings yet 
entirely cover the summit of the hill? An 
inscription commemorating the pious tribute of 
a people in erecting a portico to the family of 
Claudius Ccesar and to the Iliean Minerva, can 
only be referred to the inhabitants of that 
district of Troas who were styled Ilienses. It 
has been shewn that Claudius, after the example 
of Alexander"^, had perpetually exempted them 
from the payment of any tribute. In their 
district stood the Pagus Iliensium, with the (Cal- 
licolone) beautiful hill; and nearly thirty stadia^ 
farther towards the ivest, reversing the order of 
the bearing given by Strabo'*, the Iliensium 
'Civitas. If therefore this hill, so preeminently 
Caiiicoione. entitled to the appellation of Callicolone, from 
the regularity of its form, and the groves by 
which it seems for ages to have been adorned. 
(1) T^v oi ruv 'lX/£«u> voXiv r^v vuv. Slruh, Geogr. .ib. xiii. p. S55. 
cd. Or. 
(2) Arrian. Expedit. lib. i. 
(3) Three miles and three quarters. 
(4) Strah, Geosrr. lib. xiii. 
