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which then existed, the distance was scarcely more than half. The one way Paul wished his companions to take, while he himself, longing perhaps to enjoy a period of solitude, took the other, joining the ship, by appointment, at
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In sailing southward from Troas to Assos, one has to round Cape Lecture, and keeping due east to run along the northern shore of the Gulf of
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Index

Turkish
Ancient Greek
Turkish mainland
Asia
Ayvacık, Çanakkale
Troad
lighthouse
Latinized
anglicised

Homer
Iliad
Herodotus
Thucydides
Aristotle
Livy
Plutarch
Strabo
Pliny the Elder
Athenaeus
Ptolemaeus
Acts of the Apostles
Troas
Assos
Luke the Evangelist
Paul the Apostle
Acts 20:13
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Adramyttium
Roman road

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