280 PLiirr's KATUBAL HTSTOBT. [Book IT. 



CHAP. 6. (5.) — ACHAIA. 



The province called Achaia^ begins at the Isthmus ; from 

 the circumstance of its cities being ranged in regular suc- 

 cession on its coast, it formerly had the name of jEgialos^. 

 The first place there is Lechese, already mentioned, a port of 

 the Corinthians ; n«xt to which is Olyros', a fortress of the 

 people of Pellene^ ; then the former towns of Helice and 

 Bura^, and the places in which their inhabitants took refuge 

 after their towns had been swallowed up by the sea, Sicyon^ 

 namely, ^gira', ^gium, and Erineos*. In the interior are 

 Cleonse and HysisB^ ; then come the port of Panormus '", and 

 Bhium already mentioned ; from which promontory, Patrae, 

 of which we have previously spoken, is distant five miles ; and 

 then the place where Pherse" stood. Of the nine mountains 

 of Achaia, Scioessa is the most famous ; there is also the 

 Fountain of Cymothoe. Beyond Patrae we find the town of 

 Olenum^^, the colony of Dyme^*, the places where Bupra- 



1 Originally a district in the south of Thessaly had this name ; but to 

 distinguish it from that in the Peloponnesus, its people were called the 

 Phthiotian Achsei. 



2 From the Greek word atytaX6«, " the sea-shore." 



* Situate on the coast, about five miles from the present Yostitza. 



* In the interior. The modem Trikala stands on its site, 



* Hehce was the place of meeting of the Achsean league j when, in 

 B.C. 373, together with Bura, it was swallowed up by an earthquake, and 

 their sites were covered by the sea. Such of the people as escaped fled to 

 the places mentioned above by Pliny. Pouqueville says that some remains 

 of these places may still be seen emerging from the sea. 



6 The modem Basihco or Vasilika stands on its site. 



? The places called Palteo-Kastro and Vostitza are supposed to 

 occupy the sites of ^gira and iEgium. To the east of Vostitza con- 

 siderable ruins are still to be seen. 



8 Supposed to be the present Artotina. 



9 Towns of Roman Argohs. The ruins of the former are supposed to 

 be those at a spot still called Klenes, near the village of Curtesi. The 

 remains of Hysise, on the road from Argos to Tegea, stand on a hill 

 above the plain of Achladokampos. 



10 Now called Tekieh ; fifteen stadia from Ehium. 

 " OrPharsB; 150 stadia from Patrse. 



12 The modem Kato- Achaia. 



13 Its remains are to be seen near the modem village of Karavostasi. 

 Phny is mistaken probably in calling it a colony, as we know that it was 

 placed under the authority of the colony of Patrse, which alone was 

 allowed to enjoy the privilege of self-government. 



