BOOK IV. V. 13-16 



Achaia the best known is Scioessa ; and there is also 

 the spring of Cymothoe. Beyond Patras is the town of 

 Kato-Achaia, the colony of Dynie, the places called 

 Buprasiuni and Hyrmine, the promontory of Capo 

 Papa, the Bay of Cyllene, the promontory of Cape 

 Tornese 5 miles from Cyllene, the fortress of PhHus, 

 the district round which was called Araethyrea by 

 Homer" and afterwards Asopis. 



Then begins the territory of the Eleans, who were 

 formerly called the Epioi. EHs itself is in the 

 interior, and 13 miles inland from Pilo is the shrine 

 of Zeus of Olvmpus, which owing to the celebrity 

 of its Games has taken possession of the calendar 

 of Greece ; here once was the town of Pisa,* on the 

 banks of the river Rufia. On the coast are the 

 promontorv of Katakolo, the river Rufia, navigable 

 for 6 miles, tlie towns of Aulon and Leprium, and the 

 promontory of Platanodes, all these places lying v/est- 

 ward. Southward are the Gulf of Cyparissus with 

 the city of Cyparissus on its shore, which is 75 miles 

 round, the towns of Pilo and Modon, the place called 

 Helos, the promontory of Capo Gallo, the Asinaean 

 Gulf named from the town of Asine, and the Coronaean 

 named from Corone ; the Hst ends with the promon- 

 tory of Cape Matapan. Here is the ten-itory of 

 Messenia with its 18 mountains, and the river Pyr- 

 natza ; and inland, the city of Messene, Ithome, 

 Oechalia, Sareni, Pteleon, Thryon, Dorion and 

 Zancle, all of them celebrated at different periods. 

 The gulf measures 80 miles round and 30 miles 

 across. 



At Cape Matapan begins the territory of the free Sparta. 

 nation of Laconia, and the Laconian Gulf, which 

 measures 106 miles round and 38 miles across. The 



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