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B. xiii. c. i. 7. THE TROAD. 340 so that this country also was part of the Troad, and the sub- sequent tract as far as Adrasteia, for it was governed by " the two sons of Merops of Percote." l All therefore were Trojans from Abydos to Adrasteia, di- vided, however, into two bodies, one governed by Asins, the other by the Meropidae, as the country of the Cilicians is di- vided into the Thebaic and the Lyrnessian Cilicia. To this district may have belonged the country under the sway of Eurypylus, for it follows next to the Lyrnessis, or territory of Lyrnessus. 2 That Priam 3 was king of all these countries the words with which Achilles addresses him clearly show ; " we have heard, old man, that your riches formerly consisted in what 1 II. ii. 831. 2 So that Cilicia was divided into three principalities, as Strabo ob- serves below, c. i. 70. But perhaps this division was only invented for the ptirpose of completing the number of the nine principalities, for Strabo above, c. i. $ 2, speaks in a manner to let us suppose that other authors reckoned eight only. However this may be, the following is the number of the dynasties or principalities established by our author. 1. That of Mynes ; 2. that of Eetion, both in Cilicia ; 3. that of Altes ; 4. that of Hector; 5. that of ^Eneas ; 6. that of Pandarus ; 7. that of Asius ; 8. that of the son of Merops ; 9. that of Eurypylus, also in Cilicia. Coray. 3 Granting to Priam the sovereignty of the districts just mentioned by Strabo, his dominion extended over a country about twenty maritime leagues in length and the same in breadth. It would be impossible to de- termine the exact limits of these different districts, but it is seen that The Trojans, properly so called, occupied the basin of the Scamander (Menderes-Tschai). The Cilicians, commanded by Eetion, occupied the territory which sur- rounds the present Gulf of Adramytti. The Cilicians of Mynes were to the south of the above. The Leleges extended along a part of the northern coast of the Gulf of Adramytti, from Cape Baba. The Dardanians were above the Trojans, and the chain of Ida. On the north, extending on both sides of the Hellespont, were the people of Arisbe, Sestos, and Abydos. The people of Adrasteia occupied the Propontis, as far as the Gra- nicus. The Lycians, the country beyond, as far as the ^Esepus and Zeleia. Strabo mentioned a ninth (c. i. 2) principality subject to Priam ; he does not mention it by name, or rather it is wanting in the text. M. de Choiseul-Gouffier, (Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, vol. ii.,) with much probability, thinks that this principality was that of the island of Lesbos. Gossellin.