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Thisbe participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. Homer calls it "polytriron" (= the haunt of doves) (Il. 2.502). Strabo (9,2,28) explains this name by mentioning that it had a seaport on a rocky place, that abounded in doves.
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