Book 13
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The coast of the Propontis extends from Cyzicene and the places about the Aesepus and GranicusKodscha-Tschai. Oustvola. Gossellin. as far as Abydos, and Sestos.The ruins of Abydos are on the eastern side of the Hellespont, near a point called Nagara. Sestos, of which the ruins also exist, called Zemenic, are on the opposite coast. Between Abydos and LectumBaba Kalessi. is the country about Ilium, and Tenedos and Alexandreia Troas.Eski Stamboul, or Old Constantinople. Above all these is the mountain Ida, extending as far as Lectum. From Lectum to the river CaïcusBakir-Tschai, or Germasti. and the Canae mountains as they are called is the district comprising Assus,Beiram-koi, or Asso, or Adschane. Adramyttium,Edremid or Adramytti. Atarneus,Dikeli-koi. Pitane,Tschandarlik. and the Elaïtic bay, opposite to all which places lies the island Lesbos.Mytilene. Next follows the country about CymeLamurt-koi. as far as Hermus,Gedis-Tschai. and Phocaea,Karadscha-Fokia. where Ionia begins, and Aeolis terminates. Such then is the nature of the country.
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The poet implies that it was the Trojans chiefly who were divided into eight or even nine bodies of people, each forming a petty princedom, who had under their sway the places about Aesepus, and those about the territory of the present Cyzicene, as far as the river Caïcus. The troops of auxiliaries are reckoned among the allies.
