Samothrace

"But the lord, the Shaker of Earth, kept no blind watch, for he sat marvelling at the war and the battle, high on the topmost peak of wooded Samothrace, for from thence all Ida was plain to see; and plain to see were the city of Priam, and the ships of the Achaeans. There he sat, being come forth from the sea, and he had pity on the Achaeans that they were overcome by the Trojans, and against Zeus was he mightily wroth."

"The lofty height of Samothrace appears in Homer in a very picturesque connection with the scenery of Troy. He describes Poseidon as gazing from this throne on the incidents of the war: and travellers in the Troad have noticed the view of Samothrace towering over Imbros as a proof of the truthfulness of the Iliad."

"Threiciamque Samum quae nunc Samothracia fertur."

"... and to the Thracian Samos that is now called Samothrace."

"Insula importuosissima omnium."

"The most harbourless of all isles."

"The Isle of Samothrace gives its name to a stone which it produces, black and imponderous, and similar to wood in appearance."