Simoeis

The Simoeis was a small river of the ancient Troad, having its source in Mount Ida, or more accurately in Mount Cotylus, which passed by Troy, joined the Scamander River below that city.

[3] The river is also noted by the ancient geographers Strabo,[4] Ptolemy,[5] Stephanus of Byzantium,[6] Pomponius Mela,[7] and Pliny the Elder.

[8] Its present course is so altered that it is no longer a tributary of the Scamander, but flows directly into the Hellespont.

Scamander, another river who also supported the Trojans, called upon Simoeis for help in his battle against Achilles:"Come to my aid with all speed, fill your streams with water from your springs, stir up all your torrents, stand high in a great wave, and rouse a mighty roar of timbers and rocks, so we can stop this savage man who in his strength is raging like the gods."

(Iliad, 21.311-15).Before Simoeis could respond, Hephaestus was able to save Achilles by subduing Scamander with flame.

Water, or the fight of Achilles against Scamander and Simoeis by Auguste Couder (1819), decoration of the Rotonde d'Apollon in the Palais du Louvre .