Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 22.8.4

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[4] After this, the Aegean gradually grows narrower and flows as if by a kind of natural union into the Pontus; and joining with a part of this it takes the form of the Greek letter φ.¹ Then it separates Hellespontus from the province of Rhodopa and flows past Cynossema,² where Hecuba is supposed to be buried, and Coela, Sestos and Callipolis.3 On the opposite side it washes the tombs of Achilles and Ajax, and Dardanus and Abydus, from which Xerxes built a bridge and crossed the sea on foot; then Lampsacus, which the Persian king gave to Themistocles as a gift,³ and Parion, founded by Paris, the son of lasion.

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

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Res Gestae Perseus (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).) — 22.8.4 focus

[4] Hinc gracilescens paulatim et velut naturali quodam commercio ruens in Pontum eiusque partem ad se iungens, in speciem Φ litterae Graecae¹ formatur, exin Hellespontum a Rhodopa scindens, Cynossema (ubi sepulta creditur Hecuba) et Coelan praeterlabitur et Seston et Callipolin. Contra per Achillis Aiacisque sepulchra, Dardanum contingit et Abydon, unde iunctis pontibus Xerxes maria pedibus peragravit, dein Lampsacum Themistocli dono datam a rege Persarum, et Parion quam condidit Iasionis filius Paris.

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1. κυνὸς σῆμα, the dog’s monument, since Hecuba, after the capture of Troy, was said to have been changed into a dog; cf. Ovid, Metam. xiii. 399 ff.

2. Gallipoli.

3. See Nepos, Them. 10, 3.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 22.8.4

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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