ILION, or Iliss, in Ancient Geography, a name for the city of Troy, but most commonly used by the poets, and distinguished by the epithet Vetus. According to Strabo, the ancient city was 30 stadia farther east than New Ilium. The position of the latter was discovered by Dr. Clarke. It is upon a low eminence, about three miles from the promontory Sigeum, now called Jenithere. New or modern Ilium was a village which Alexander, after the battle of Granicus, called a city, and ordered to be enlarged. His orders were executed by Lysimachus, who encompassed it with a wall of 40 stadia. It was afterwards adorned by the Romans, who granted it immunities as to their mother-city. From this city the Iliss of Homer takes its name. The various disasters of the Greeks and Trojans, as described by the poet, gave rise to the proverb Iliss Motorum.