Chap. 88 Trees Planted by Agamemnon the First Year of the Trojan War: Other Trees Which Date From the Time That the Place Was Called Ilium, Anterior to the Trojan War
There are some authors, too, who state that a plane-tree at Delphi was planted by the hand of Agamemnon, as also another at Caphyæ, a sacred grove in Arcadia. At the present day, facing the city of Ilium, and close to the Hellespont, there are trees growing over the tomb2747 of Protesilaüs there, which, in all ages since that period, as soon as they have grown of sufficient height to behold Ilium, have withered away, and then begun to flourish again. Near the city, at the tomb of Ilus, there are some oaks2748 which are said to have been planted there when the place was first known by the name of Ilium.