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iiium\ Alea, Methydrium^, Enispe, Macistum, Lampia, 
Clitorium^, and Cleonse^ ; 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- 
peus^^, and Nonacris^^, besides eight others of no note. 
The 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 w orthy of mention are those 
of the Aliphiraei^', the Abeatse^^, the Pyrgenses^^, the Paro- 
1 Notliing seems to be known of this Parthenimn. Alea lay between 
Orchomenus and Stymphalus. Its ruins have been discovered in the 
dark vaUey of Skotini, a mile to the ISF.E. of the village of Buyati. 
2 Its site has the modern name of Palgeopyrgos. The sites of Enispe, 
mentioned by Homer, and Macistum, are unknown. 
3 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 Chtora. 
Its ruins, few in number, but testifying its importance, are found 
near the modern village of IQeves, not far from Kurtesi. The Nemean 
games weie celebrated in honour of Hercules in the grove of Nemea, 
between Cieonse and Phhus. 
^ From the village of Bembina there, mentioned by Strabo, and on 
which 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 modern Zyria. 
8 IN^omiai and Hellenitza are modern names given to this mountain. 
9 In the south of Arcadia. It is now called Hoinon. 
10 Or Artemisium, forming the boundary between ArgoHs and Arcadia. 
It is now called Turniki. 
11 The pass by this mountain from Argohs to Tegea is still called 
Partheni. 
12 Now called Zembi, according to Ansart. 
13 The town of Nonacris stood at its foot. The river Styx took its rise 
in these mountains. i* Now called the Landona. 
1^ The town now called Fonia, already mentioned by Pliny. The 
waters of its marshes were discharged by a subterranean passage, said to 
have been made by Hercules. 
^6 Now called the Dogana, The two principal heights of Mount 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 still to be seen on the hill of Nerovitza. 
18 The people of Abea, in Messenia. i^ The people of Pyrgos, in Arcadia. 
