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Beyond Abydos are the parts about Ilium, the sea-coast as far as Lectum, the places in the Trojan plain, and the country at the foot of Ida, which was subject to Æneas. The poet names the Dardanii in two ways, speaking of them as

“Dardanii governed by the brave son of Anchises,”1378

calling them Dardanii, and also Dardani;

“Troes, and Lycii, and close-fighting Dardani.”1379

It is probable that the Dardania,1380 so called by the poet, was anciently situated there;

“Dardanus, the son of cloud-compelling Jupiter, founded Dardania:”1381

at present there is not a vestige of a city.