[60] Lib. viii. p. 599. Οὐδὲν ἴχνος σώζεται τῆς ἀρχαίας πόλεως.
And in like manner, Lucan, Lib. ix. ℣. 968.
Tota teguntur
Pergama dumetis, et jam periere ruinae.
[61] Polybius makes the breadth of the Hellespont here to be no more than two furlongs, Lib. xvi. p. 735.
[62] In some modern prints Aidos. The most memorable siege of this place by king Philip of Macedon is related by Livy, Lib. xxxi. cap. 17.
[63] Γενόμενος δὲ μεταξὺ Τρωάδος καὶ τῆς ἀρχαίας Ἰλίου, καὶ τόπον εὑρὼν εἰς πόλεως κατασκευήν ἐπιτήδειον, θεμελίους τε ἐπήξατο, καὶ τείχους τὶ μέρος εἰς ὕψος ἀνέστησεν· ὅπερ ἄχρι νῦν ὁρᾷν ἔνεστι ἐπὶ τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον πλέουσιν. Zosim. Lib. ii. pag. 105. ed. Oxon.
[64] Europamque Asiae, Sestonque admovit Abydo. Lucan. Lib. ii. ℣. 674.
[65] Lib. xiii. pag. 59.
[66] Her. et Leand. ℣. 23, 24.