Book 13
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Polydamas also says, Consider well, my friends, what is to be done, for my advice is to return now to the city, for we are far from the walls.Il. xviii. 254.
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Demetrius (of Scepsis) adds the testimony of HestiaeaHestiaea was distinguished for her commentary on Homer somewhat in the same manner as Madame Dacier in modern times. of Alexandreia, who composed a work on the Iliad of Homer, and discusses the question whether the scene of the war was about the present city, and what was the Trojan plain which the poet mentions as situated between the city and the sea, for the plain seen in front of the present city is an accumulation of earth brought down by the rivers, and formed at a later period.
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Polites also, who was the scout of the Trojans, trusting to his swiftness of foot, and who was on the summit of the tomb of the old Aesyetes,Il. ii. 792. was acting absurdly. For although he was seated on the summit of the tomb, yet he might have observed from the much greater height of the citadel, situated nearly at the same distance, nor would his swiftness of foot have been required for the purpose of security, for the tomb of Aesyetes, which exists at present on the road to Alexandreia, is distant five stadia from the citadel.
