Kitap 13
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Again, Polites,who was wont to sit as a sentinel of the Trojans, trusting in his fleetness of foot, on the topmost part of the barrow of aged Aesyetes,Hom. Il. 2.792was doing a foolish thing, for even though he sat on the topmost part of it, still he might have kept watch from the much greater height of the acropolis, at approximately the same distance, with no need of fleetness of foot for safety; for the barrow of Aesyetes now pointed out is five stadia distant on the road to Alexandreia. Neither is the “clear running space”See Hom. Il. 2.812 of Hector round the city easy to understand, for the present Ilium has no “clear running space,” on account of the ridge that joins it. The ancient city, however, has a “clear running space” round it.
