PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



19 Tot sinus Peloponnesi oram lancinant, tot maria 

 adlatrant, siquidem a septentrione lonium inrunipit, 

 ab occidente Siculo pulsatur, a meridie Cretico 

 urguetur, ab oriente brumali Aegaeo, ab oricrue 

 solstitiali Myrtoo quod a Megarico incipiens sinu 

 totam Atticen adluit. 



20 VI. Mediterranca eius Arcadia maxime tenet 

 undique a mari remota, initio Drymodes, mox 

 Pelasgis appellata. oppida eius Psophis, Mantinea, 

 Stymphaluni, Tegea, Antigonca, Orchomenum, Phe- 

 neirni, Pallantium unde Palatium Romae, Megale 

 Pohs, Gortyna, Bucolium, Carnion, Parrhasie, Thel- 

 pusa, Melaenae, Heraea, Pylae, Pallene, Agrae, 

 Epium, Cynaethae, Lepreon Arcadiae, Parthenium, 

 Alea, Methydrium, Enispe, Macistum, Lampia, 

 Chtorium, Cleonae. inter quae duo oppida regio 



21 Nemea est Bembinadia vocitata. montes in Arcadia 

 Pholoe cum oppido, item Cyllene, Lycaeus in quo 

 Lycaci lovis delubrum, Maenalus, Artemisius, Par- 

 thenius, Lampeus, Nonacris, praeterque ignobiles 

 VIII. amnes Ladon e paludibus Phcnei, Erymanthus 

 e monte eiusdem nominis in Alpheum defluens. 



22 rehquae civitates in Achaia dicendae Ahpheraei, 

 Abeatae, Pyrgenses, Paroreatae, Paragenitae, Tor- 

 tuni, Typanei, Thriusi, Tritienses. universae Achaiae 



" Apu/xa>87js, ' wooded.' 



* /.€. Mantinea, which was taken and partly dcstroyod by 

 Aratus, and rcnained after Antigonus Doson, who had 

 a«8ist«d him and who rcstored it. 



' There was anothcr place of the same name in Elis. 



■* From the viUage of Bembina there. 



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