Cliap. 6.] ACCOUIfT or COTJNTETES, ETC. 281: 



simn' and Hyrmine once stood, the Promontoiy of Araxus% 

 the Bav of C vllene, and the Promontory of Chelonates, at hve 

 miles' distance from CyUenel There is also the fortress of 

 Phlius^ ; the district aronnd which was called by liomer 

 Ar£ethyrea% and, after his time, Asopis. 



The territory of the Eleans then begins, who were formerly 

 called Epei, with the city of Elis^ in the niterior, and, at a 

 distance of twelve miles from Phlius, being also in the m- 

 terior, the temple of Olympian Jupiter, which by the uni- 

 versal celebrity of its games, gives to Greece its mode ot 

 reckonino-^ Here too once stood the town of Plsa^ the river 

 Alpheus flowing past it. On the coast there is the Promon- 

 tory of Ichthys^ The river Alpheus is navigable six miles 

 nearly as far as the to^vns of Anion ^« and Leprion. We next 

 come'to the Promontory of Platanodes^'. All these localities 

 lie to the west. 



1 Pouqiievillc thinks that it was situate on the rivernow caUed the 

 Yerga. Leake supposes that the to^vn of Hyrmine stood o^ tl^^ ^^^^^ «* 

 the present Kastro Tomeseon the peninsula of Khlemutzi ; b-tBoWa^ 

 and Curtius place it further north, at the modem harbour of ^unupeli, 

 where there are some ancient ruins. 



2 Now Capo Papa. , . , p, 



3 The locality of CyUene is doubtfid. Most ^Titers placeit at Gla- 

 rentza but Po/quevill^e suggests Andravida or Andvav.Ua, and Mannert 

 places it near Clarenza. Chelmates or Chelonatas J^s probably the 

 naine originally of the whole peninsula of Khlemutzi, but the pomt here 

 mentioned wa^ most probably the modern Cape lomese 



4 It lay in the interior, soutli of Sicyonia, and north of Argos. ir-QU 

 nueville found its rmns on the banks of the Asopus. 



^ 'Strabo savs that this was the name of the most ancient town of 



Phhasia, and that the inhabitants afteinvards '^f't^'YJZl^^l:^ of 



6 Some smaU ruins of it arc to be seen at the foot of the hill ot 



^ftSiV::;«^3!tckoned according ^ 



tion oi- the Olympic games : they were estabhshed in the year B.C. / /O, 



and were celebrated cveiT fom-th year. 



8 It was destroyed in the year' B.C. 572 by the E nms. not a vestige 

 of it bein.- left. The Alpheus retains the name ot Aliio. 



« Or "the Fish," from its peculiar shape. It is now called Ivatakolo. 



10 Probably situate in the yalley betwe.-n Ehs and Messema, whu-h was 

 so called It is not elsewhere mentioned ; and its rums are thought to 

 be tliose near the sea, on the right bank of the river C^pari^sus. Lepriou 



is again mentioned in c. x. i. 4 • x- ; i.; 



" Or Platamodos. Supposed to be the present Aja Jvyi laki. 



