Identifier: constantinoplean00dall (find matches)
Title: Constantinople ancient and modern : with excursions to the shores and islands of the Archipelago and to the Troad
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 Mercati, Gaetano
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Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, T. Cadell, junr. & W. Davies ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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e fhips (B. v. 53), but when the whole army wasconvened, their affemblies were held on the ftrand (B. v. 92). Achilles is faid to fit onthe ftrand far from all his friends (B. v. 549), and the Myrmidons exercifed themfelvesthere at quoits and other athletic games. There were likewife altars and a court of juf-tice (H. V. 349. A. V. 806). The fhips of Agamemnon were near the fea (I. v. 43)of Ajax, at one extremity of the camp, and of Achilles at the other, but thofe of Ulyffeswere ftationed in the middle (0. v. 225 and A. v. 5). The outermoft line (by whichthe moft inland is meant) was compofed of fliips, and others with tents were intermixedin regular order behind it, if thus much may be gathered from the word t^rpoKpoa-tras^(a. v. 35). It is evident that the fhips were intermixed with the tents, and the pradticeof drawing their vefTels afliore is univerfal amongft the modern Greeks. Each fliip isftated to have contained a hundred men, nor can it be objedled, that veflels fufficiently
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337 We began our furvey of the plain of Troy. Croffing the Simocisover a long wooded bridge near its embouchure, we paffed over ancxtenfive level of ploughed fields, and Goulu-fui, a brook whichempties itfelf into the fea near In-tepe, or the tomb of Ajax Telamo-nius. This tumulus is now irregularly fliaped. Near the top is a capacious for fuch a number were not removable to a confiderable diftance on the fands.Every port in Greece affords fufficient proof of this pradlice, to which Virgil alludes, Jamque fere ficco fubdudts littore puppes. ^ti. iii. V. 135. Achilles (landing on the prow of the fliip, calls to Patroclus in his tent (A. v. 328,487. 602. and I. V. 185). The tents of each chief adjoined his (hips, as did thofe of Neftor and Achilles(K. V. 74. and A. v. 602). By attending to this ftrange intermixture of Hiips and tents,a competently jufl idea of the Grsecian camp will be formed, as it was divided regularly intoroads or ftreets. This difpoGtion of an army, adopted from pri

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