Sigæum

, or Sigēum , now cape Incihisari , a town of Troas, on a promontory of the same name, where the Scamander falls into the sea, extending six miles along the shore. It was near Sigæum that the greatest part of the battles between the Greeks and Trojans were fought, as Homer mentions, and there Achilles was buried. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 2 , li. 312 ; bk. 7 , li. 294 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 12 , li. 71 .— Lucan , bk. 9 , li. 962 .— Mela , bk. 1 , ch. 18 .— Strabo , bk. 13 .— Dictys Cretensis , bk. 5 , ch. 12 .