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or veiy near to it ; that is to say, within the cha.p. 
SiMOisiAX Plaix. Homer, enumerating the ' r— ' 
rivers brought to act against the Grecian rampart, 
thus characterizes the SiMOi's^: 
Kflt; 2<|tt(i£<j, 'oil 'TToXXu /Ztayptx sccci r^vlpctXiictt y 
If, then, we can point out aiiy other passage 
which decides the position of the Scamaxder 
witii regard to the Simois, we may identify 
the two rivers, without any reference to the 
circumstances of their origin, merely by the 
geography of the country. Such a passage 
occurs in the eleventh book of the Iliad, where 
Hector is described as being upon the left of 
all the war, and, at the same time, upon the 
banks of the Scamaxder^: 
The Scamaxder being therefore on the left 
of the Trojan army, and the battle in the 
Simo'isian Plain, having in front the Grecian camp 
and the sea, the nature of the territory is 
sufficient to decide the relative position of the 
(2) Iliad M. 22. jBarnw. Cant. nil. 
(3) Iliad A. 497. Ibid. 
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