Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 22.8.3

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[3] From there, with back-flowing current,¹ it laves the temple of Apollo Sminthius,² the Troad, and Ilium, famed for the death of heroes, and forms the bay of Melas,³ facing the west wind, at the entrance of which is seen Abdera, the home of Protagoras and Democritus, and the bloodstained dwelling of the Thracian Diomedes,⁴ and the vales through which the Hebrus⁵ flows into it, and Maronea and Aenos,⁶ a city which Aeneas began under unfavourable auspices, but presently abandoned it and hastened on to ancient Ausonia under the guidance of the gods.

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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History (English) (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).)

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[3] Unde gurgitibus refluis Apollinis Sminthii templum et Troada perstringit et Ilium heroicis casibus claram, efficitque Melana sinum oppositum Zephyro, cuius apud principium Abdera visitur Protagorae domicilium et Democriti, cruentaeque Diomedis Thracii sedes et convalles, per quas Hebrus sibi miscetur, et Maronea et Aenus, qua diris auspiciis coepta moxque relicta ad Ausoniam veterem ductu numinum properavit Aeneas.

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1. Cf. Hor., Odes, i. 2, 13,

retortis violenter undis.

2. On Tenedos; Iliad. i. 38; Strabo, xiii. 1, 46. The god had this epithet from σμίνθος, a kind of field-mouse destructive to the crops, destroyed by Apollo.

3. The Bay of Saros, west of the Thracian Chersonese and the Hellespont.

4. According to the myth, he fed his horses on human flesh, and was slain by Hercules.

5. To-day the Maritza.

6. Modern Marogna. The identification of this town with the city founded by Aeneas in Thrace is doubtful, since Homer says that auxiliaries came from there to Ilium, and Apollodorus represents Heracles as landing there on his return from Troy; see Heyne, Excursus to Aen. iii. p. 416; and xxviii. 4, 13, below.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 22.8.3

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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