place
Mount Ida
Idaean
also: Idaeis
The mountain near Troy; 'Idaean ships' are the Trojan fleet that carried off Helen.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.15 Idaean ships
The Trojan fleet, built of timber from Mount Ida near Troy.
- The Odes §3.20 Ida
The mountain from which Ganymede ('he who was snatched from watery Ida') was carried off.