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nium*, Alea, Methydrium', Enispe, Macistum, Lampia, 

 Clitorium^, and Cleonae* ; between which two last towns is 

 the district of Nemea, commonly known as Bembinadia*. 



The mountains of Arcadia are, Pholoe', with a town of the 

 same name, Cyllene', Lycseus', upon which is the temple of 

 Lycsean Jupiter; Maenalus', Artemisius'", Parthenius", Lam- 



?eu8'', and Nonacris^', besides eight others of no note, 

 'he rivers are the Ladon", which rises in the marshes of 

 Pheneus", and the Erymanthus*', which springs from a 

 mountain of the same name, and flows into the Alpheus. 



The other cities of Achaia worthy of mention are those 

 of the Aliphiraei'^ the Abeatae'*, the Pyrgenses^'*, the Paro- 



* Nothing seems to be known of this Parthenium. Alea lay between 

 Orchomenus and Stymphalus. Its ruins have been discovered in the 

 dark valley of Skotini, a mile to the N.E. of the village of Buyati. 



* Its site has the modem name of Palfieopyrgos. The sites of Enispe, 

 mentioned by Homer, and Macistum, are unknown. 



' Or Cleitor, a famous town of Arcadia. Its ruins are to be seen on 

 the plain of Kalzana, or Katzanes. One of the rivulets that ran past it 

 still retains the name of Clitora. 



* Its ruins, few in nximber, but testifying its importance, are found 

 near the modem village of Kleves, not far from Kurtesi. The Nemean 

 games were celebrated in honour of Hercules in the grove of Nemea, 

 between CieonsB and Phlius. 



• From the village of Bembina. there, mentioned by Strabo, and on 

 vhich Koutzomati probably now stands. 



• Now called Olono. It received its name from the Centaur Pholus, 

 accidentally slain by one of the poisoned arrows of Hercules. 



7 The modem Zyria. 



■ Nomiai and Hellenitza are modem names given to this mountain. 



• In the south of Arcadia. It is now called Roinon. 



^® Or Artemisium, forming the boundary between Argolis and Arcadia. 

 It is now called Tumiki. 



" The pass by this mountain from Argolis to Tegea is stiU called 

 Partheni. 



12 Now called Zembi, according to Ansart. 



w The town of Nonacris stood at its foot. The river Styx took its rise 

 in these mountains. ** Now called the Landona. 



** The town now called Fonia, already mentioned by Pliny. The 

 waters of its marshes were discharged by a subterranean pMsage, said to 

 have been made by Hercules. 



" Now called the Dogana, The two principal heights of Moimt Ery* 

 manthus are Olonos and Kalefoni. 



17 The people of AHphira, a town of Arcadia, in the district of Cynura. 

 Considerable remains of it are stUl to be seen on the hiU of Nerovitza. 



^ The people of Abea, in Messenia. ^^ 'jhe people of Pyrgos, in Arcadia. 



