“Sipylus in the Idæan land,”
—and Tantalus says,
“I sow the furrows of the Berecynthian fields, extending twelve days’ journey, where the seat of Adrasteia and Ida resound with the lowing of herds and the bleating of sheep; all the plain re-echoes with their cries.”
BOOK XIII.
ASIA.
SUMMARY.
The Thirteenth Book contains the part of Asia south of the Propontis (Sea of Marmara), the whole of the sea-coast, and the adjacent islands. The author dwells some time on Troy, though deserted, on account of its distinction, and the great renown it derived from the war.
CHAPTER I.
1. These are the limits of Phrygia. We return again to the Propontis, and to the sea-coast adjoining the Æsepus,[1304] and shall observe, in our description of places, the same order as before.