Simois
Σιμόεις
Simois (Σιμόεις), a small river of Troas, having its source in Mount Ida, or more accurately in Mount Cotylus, which passed by Ilion, joined the Scamander below that city. This river is frequently spoken of in the Iliad, and described as a rapid mountain torrent. (Il. 4.475, 5.774, 12.22, 21.308; comp. Aeschyl. Agam. 692; Strab. xiii. p.597; Ptol. 5.2.3; Steph. B. sub voce Pomp. Mela, i, 18; Plin. Nat. 5.33; and SCAMANDER) Its present name is Dumbreak Chai, and at present its course is so altered that it is no longer a tributary of the Scamander, but flows directly into the Hellespont.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.