Crossword-Solution: ILIANS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Thus to their bulwarks, smit with panic fear, The herded Ilians rush like driven deer: There safe they wipe the briny drops away, And drown in bowls the labours of the day.

Thus to their bulwarks, smit with panic fear, The herded Ilians* rush like driven deer: There safe they wipe the briny drops away, And drown in bowls the labors of the day.

What capital both the Ilians and the people of Pergamum made out of these bold mendacities, is well known.

For all of these reasons he says that ancient Troy must be placed on the site of the “Village of the Ilians” (Ἰλιέων κώμη), 30 stadia or 3 geographical miles from Ilium and 42 stadia from the coast, although he is obliged to admit that not the faintest trace of the city has been preserved.[62] Strabo, with his peculiarly correct judgment, would assuredly have rejected all these erroneous assertions of Demetrius of Scepsis, had he himself visited the Plain of Troy, for they can easily be refuted.

Interruptions from Rain--Last works of the season, 1871--The supposed ruins of Troy reached--Great blocks of stone--Engineering contrivances--Excavations at the “Village of the Ilians:” no traces of habitation, and none of hot springs--Results of the excavations thus far--Review of the objects found at various depths--Structure of the lowest houses yet reached--Difficulties of the excavations--The object aimed at--Growth of the Hill of Hissarlik.