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A promontory near Troy.
The goddess Hera and Hypnos (god of sleep) shrouded themselves in mist and traveled from the islands of Lemnos and Imbros to Mount Ida. They used the promontory of Lekton as a stepping-stone as they left the sea and lithely moved across the landscape.
| References: Homer, Iliad book 14, line 284 |