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RITION (Ancient city) TROAS
Rhoeteum (to Hpoiteion or Rhoition akron), a promontory, or rather
a rocky headland, running out in several points in Mysia or Troas, at the entrance
of the Hellespont, north of Ilion; it contained a small town of the same name
situated on an eminence. The place is very often mentioned by the ancients. (Herod.
vii. 43 ; Scylax, p. 35 ; Strab. xiii. p. 595; Steph. B. s. v.; Pomp. Mela, i.
18; Plin. v. 33; Thucyd. iv. 52, viii. 101; Apollon. Rhod. i. 929; Tryphiod. 216;
Virg. Aen. vi. 595; Liv. xxxvii. 37.) The promontory is now called Intepeh, and
the site of the ancient town is believed to be occupied by Paleo Castro, near
the village of It-ghelmes. (Richter, Wallfahrten, p. 475; Leake, Asia Minor, p.
275.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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