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sium^ and Hyrmine once stood, tlie 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 
Araethyrea^, 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 from Phlius, being also in the in- 
terior, the temple of Olympian Jupiter, which by the uni- 
versal celebrity of its games, gives to Grreece 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. 
1 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 Tornese on the peninsula of Khlemutzi ; but Boblaje 
and Curtius place it further north, at the modern harbour of KunupeH, 
where there are some ancient ruins. 
2 Now Capo Papa. 
3 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 
name originally of the whole peninsula of Khlemutzi, but the point here 
mentioned was most probably the modern Cape Tornese. 
It lay 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 
Phhasia, and that the inhabitants afterwards deserted it for Phhus. 
^ Some small ruins of it are to be seen at the foot of the hill of^ ' 
Kaloskopi, its ancient Acropolis. 
7 Py 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 fom'th year. 
^ It was destroyed in the year B.C. 572 by the Eleans, not a vestige 
of it being left. The Alplieus retains the name of Alfio. 
^ Or "the Fish," from its peculiar shape. It is now called Katakolo. 
Probably situate in the valley between Elis and Messenia, which was 
so called. It is not elsewhere mentioned ; and its ruins are thought to 
be those near the sea, on the right bank of the river Cyparissus. Leprion* 
is again mentioned in c. x. 
Or Platamodes. Supposed to be the present Aja Kyriaki., 
