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sium^ and Hyrmine once stood, the Promontory of Araxus^, 

 the Bay of Cyllene, and the Promontory of Chelonates, at five 

 miles' distance from Cyllene'. There is also the fortress of 

 Phlius^ ; the district around which was called by Homer 

 ArsBthyrea^, and, after his time, Asopis. 



The territory of the Eleans then begins, who were formerly 

 called Epei, with the city of Elis* in the interior, and, at a 

 distance of twelve miles ifrom Phlius, being also in the in- 

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

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

 reckoning^. Here too once stood the town of Pisa®, 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 towns of Aulon'" and Leprion. We next 

 come to the Promontory of Platanodes". All these localities 

 lie to the west. 



^ Pouqueville thinks that it was situate on the river now called the 

 Yerga. Leake supposes that the town of Hyrmine stood on the site of 

 the present Kastro Tomese on the peninsula of Khlemutzi ; but Boblaye 

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

 where there are some ancient ruins. 



2 Now Capo Papa. 



^ The locality of Cyllene is doubtful. Most writers place it at Gla- 

 rentza, but Pouqueville suggests Andravida or Andravilla, and Mannert 

 places it near Clarenza. Chelinates or Chelonatas was probably the 

 nanie originally of the whole peninsula of Khlemutzi, but the point here 

 mentioned was most probably the modem Cape Tomese. 



* It lav in the interior, south of Sicyonia, and north of Argos. Pou- 

 queville found its ruins on the banks of the Asopus. 



" Strabo says that this was the name of the most ancient town of 

 PhUasia, and that the inhabitants afterwards deserted it for PhUus. 



^ Some small ruins of it are to be seen at the foot of the hill of 

 Kaloskopi, its ancient Acropolis. 



7 By Olympiads, which were reckoned according to the order of celebra- 

 tion of the Olympic games : they were estabhshed in the year B.C. 776, 

 and were celebrated every fourth year. 



8 It was destroyed in the year B.C. 572 by the Eleans, not a vestige 

 of it being left. The Alpheus retains the name of Alfio. 



" Or "the Fish," from its pecidiar shape. It is now called Katakolo. 



^^ Probably situate in the valley between Ehs and Messenia, which was 

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

 be those near tlie sea, on the right bank of the river Cyparissus. Leprion 

 is again mentioned in c. x. 



" Or Platumodes. Supposed to be the present Aja Kyriaki. 



