Igitur quod in campis Troianis proxime flumen armenta rufa et pecora leucophaea nascuntur, ideo id flumen Ilienses Xanthum appellavisse dicuntur.
Therefore the Trojans are said to have given the name Xanthus or Chestnut to the river which flows in the plains of Troy, because in its neighbourhood the cattle are red and the sheep of a light brown colour.
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