PROTESILAI TURRIS, the sepulchre of Proteilaus, with a temple, at which Alexander sacrificed, (Arian): situate at the south extremity of the Helleispon, next the Chersonnesus Thracia. Proteilaus was the first Greek who landed on the coast of Troy, and the first Greek slain by the Trojans, (Homer, Ovid.) His wife Laodamia, to assuage her grief, begged the gods for a sight of his shade; and obtaining her request, she expired in his embraces, (Hyginus.) Proteilaus was also called Phylacides, from Phylace, a town of Thessaly.