ASSUS, i. feminine, (Strabo); Assum, or Asson, i. neuter, (Ptolemy); a town of Troas (though by others supposed to be of Myria), and the same with Apollonia, (Pliny); but different from the Apollonia on the river Rhynadus. Ptolemy places it on the sea-coast, but Strabo more inland; if he does not mean the head of an inland bay, as appears from Diodorus Siculus. It was a town of the Leleges, the country of Cleanthes the stoic philosopher, who succeeded Zeno; and is still called Assi. E. Long. 27. 30. N. Lat. 38. 30.