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[397] The site of Thebe is fixed by the later name “Θήβης πεδίον”, given to the plain of Adramytteion, Herod.vii. 42, etc. See notes on 1.37, 366. No mountain called Plakos could be traced in Strabo's day. Whatever the tribal connexions of these Κίλικες may have been, it is clear that they had no local connexion with Kilikia. They are named only here and 415. Compare the “Λυκίη” of Pandaros, 5.105.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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