PROTESILAI TURIS, the sepulchre of Proteilaus, with a temple, at which Alexander sacrificed, (Arian); situated at the south extremity of the Hellefont, next the Cheronesus 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 allay her grief, begged the gods for a sight of his shade; and obtaining her request, she expired in his embrace, (Hyginus.) Proteilaus was also called Phylacides, from Phylace, a town of Thessaly.
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