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of others Dipsium. The Port Csenites, the Bay Saronicus, 

 encircled in old Time with a Grove of Oaks, from whence it 

 had the Name, for so old Greece called an Oak. Within it 

 the Town Epidaurum, celebrated for the Shrine of JEscu- 

 lapius ; the Promontory Spiraeum, the Harbours Anthedon 

 and Bucephalus : and likewise Cenchreae, which we spoke of 

 before, being the other limit of the Isthmus, with the Shrine 

 of Neptune, famous for its Games every five Years. So 

 many Bays cut up the Peloponnesian Coast : so many Seas 

 roar against it. For on the North side the Ionian Sea 

 breaketh in : on the West it is beaten upon by the Sicilian. 

 From the South the Crethean Sea driveth against it : the 

 ^Egean from the South-east, and Myrtoan on the North- 

 east, which beginning at the Megarian Bay, washeth all 

 Attica. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Of Arcadia. 



THE midland Parts of this, Arcadia most of all taketh 

 up, being every way remote from the Sea : at the beginning 

 it was named Drymodis, but soon after Pelasgis. The 

 Towns in it are Psophis, Mantinea, Stymphalum, Tegea, 

 Antigonea, Orchomenum, Pheneum, Palatium, from whence 

 the Mount Palatium at Rome took the Name, Megalepolis, 

 Catina, Bocalium, Carmon, Parrhasiae, Thelphusa, Melanaea, 

 Heraea, Pile, Pellana, Agree, Epium, Cynsetha, Lepreon of 

 Arcadia, Parthenium, Alea, Methydrium, Enespe, Macistum, 

 Lampe, Clitorium, Cleone ; between which Towns is the 

 Tract Nemea, usually called Berubinadia. Mountains in 

 Arcadia, Pholoe, with the Town : also Cyllene, Lyceus, 

 wherein the Shrine of Jupiter Lyceus, Maenalus, Artemisius, 

 Parthenius, Lampeus, and Nonacris : and eight besides of 

 base account. Rivers, Ladon, issuing out of the Fens of 

 Pheneus, Erymanthus out of a Mountain of the same Name, 

 running both down into Alpheus. The rest of the Cities to 

 be named in Achaea, Aliphiraei, Albeatae, Pyrgerises, Pareatae, 

 Paragenitise, Tortuni, Typanaei, Thryasii, Trittenses. All 



