RHOETEUM
RHOETEUM (
τὸ Ῥοίτειον or
Ῥοίτιον ἄκρον), 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. (
Hdt. 7.43 ;
Scylax, p. 35 ;
Strab. xiii. p.595;
Steph. B. sub voce Pomp. Mela, 1.18;
Plin. Nat. 5.33;
Thuc. 4.52,
8.101;
Apollon. 1.929; Tryphiod. 216;
Verg. A. 6.595;
Liv. 37.37.)
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.)
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