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THE TROAD


1. General Description of the Plain.Far in the south of the Trojan Plain rises a high mountain peak, from


Fig. 1 - Mount Ida

Fig. 1.Mount Ida


which extend ramifications, northeastward and southwestward, so numerous and multiform that by old writers the mountain was likened to a monstrous centipede.[1] This is "many ridged" Ida (Χ, 171; Λ, 112;


  1. Strabo, XIII, 583.
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