Thus advancing, the army passed to the right of Mount Ida, and arrived at last on the bank of the Scamander.
Now, were I a woman, and eke a virgin, that is the man I should make my Scamander.
Modern travellers accuse Demetrius with having confounded the Scamander with the Simoïs.
Both probably rested on the authority of Homer, who places the source of the Scamander in Ida.
On reaching the Scamander the army found its first difficulty with respect to water.
