Book 13
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In the interval between Lampsacus and Parium was Paesus, a city, and a river Paesus.Beiram-dere. The city was razed, and the Paeseni, who, as well as the Lampsaceni, were a colony of Milesians, removed to Lampsacus. The poet mentions the city with the addition of the first syllable, and the country of Apaesus;Il. ii. 328.Il. ii. 328. and without it, a man of great possessions, who lived at Paesus;Il. v.612.Il. v.612. and this is still the name of the river. Colonae also is a colony of Milesians. It is situated above Lampsacus, in the interior of the territory Lampsacene. There is another Colonae situated upon the exterior Hellespontic Sea, at the distance of 140 stadia from Ilium; the birth-place, it is said, of Cycnus. Anaximenes mentions a Colonae in the Erythraean territory, in Phocis, and in Thessaly. Iliocolone is in the Parian district. In Lampsacene is a place well planted with vines, called Gergithium, and there was a city Gergitha, founded by the Gergithi in the Cymaean territory, where formerly was a city called Gergitheis, (used in the plural number, and of the feminine gender,) the birthplace of CephalonThe same person probably as Cephalion, author of a History of the Trojan War. the Gergithian, and even now there exists a place in the Cymaean territory called Gergithium, near Larissa.
