Note 284 — NO. XXXIX.—TROJA, AND OTHER CITIES OF THE TROAS.
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The signification of the name Sigéum appears in an anecdote of an Athenian lady, celebrated for her wit, not her virtue. Wearied by the loquacity of a visitor, she inquired of him, “Whether he did not come from the Hellespont?” On his answering in the affirmative, she asked him “how it happened that he was so little acquainted with the first of the places there?” On his demanding, “Which of them?” she pointedly replied, “Sigéum;” thus indirectly bidding him to be silent.—(Diogenes Laertius.) Chandler.