place
Troy
also: Ilium
The city besieged by the Greeks and laid waste; called Trojan, Dardanian, and Ilian.
Reading notes
- Carmina §64 Trojan walls
Troy (Ilium), besieged and at last laid waste by the Greeks.
- Carmina §64 Dardanian city
Another name for Troy, after its founder Dardanus.
- Carmina §65 Trojan earth
The land of Troy, in whose soil — near the Rhoetean shore — the poet's brother lies buried.
- Carmina §68a Ilian walls
Troy (Ilium), to whose walls Protesilaus and the Greek host sailed.