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but this is not the case with the highest villages on the mountain, namely, Oba Kioi^[1] and Evjilar, the land of which hardly produces enough to feed their scanty population. Further, we must consider that Dardanié was situated in Dardania, the dominion of Aeneas, which, according to Strabo,^[2] was limited to the small mountain slope, and extended in a southerly direction to the environs of Scepsis, and on the other side, to the north, as far as the Lycians about Zeleia. I therefore presume that Kurshunlu Tepeh was the original site of Dardanié, whose position Strabo^[3] could not determine, and of which he only says that it was probably situated in Dardania. As moreover, according to the tradition preserved by Homer,^[4] the inhabitants of Dardanié emigrated and built Ilios, I presume that the abandoned city on Kurshunlu Tepeh received other colonists, and was called Scepsis, because, as Strabo^[5] thinks, it had a high position and was visible at a great distance. Just as, according to Homer, Dardanié was the residence of the ancient kings, so, according to Demetrius, as cited by Strabo,^[6] the ancient Scepsis remained the residence of Aeneas. It was situated above Cebrené, namely, nearer to Ida, and was separated from it by the Scamander.^[7] Strabo^[8] proceeds to tell us that the inhabitants of Scepsis built, at a distance of 60 stadia from the ancient city, the new Scepsis, which still existed in his time, and was the birthplace of Demetrius. Now as the distance from Kurshunlu Tepeh to Beiramich is just two hours, and therefore about 60 stadia, and also as Beiramich is evidently the site of an ancient city, and as many coins of the later Scepsis are found there, I hold the two to be identical.