288 plint's natural HISTOET. [Book lY. 
reatae^ the Parageuitse, the Tortuni, the Typanei^, the 
Thriasii^, and the Tritienses*. Domitius IsTero [the emperor] 
granted liberty to the whole of Achaia^. The Peloponnesus, 
from the Promontory of Malea to the town of ^gium^ on 
the Corinthian Gulf, is 190 miles in length, and 125 miles 
across from Elis to Epidaurus ; the distance being, from 
Olympia to Argos, through Arcadia, sixty-eight miles. The 
distance from Olympia to Phlius has been already men- 
tioned^. Throughout the whole of this region, as though 
nature had been desirous to compensate for the inroads of 
the sea, seventy-six mountains raise their lofty heads. 
CHAP. 11. (7.) — ATTICA. 
At the narrow neck of the Isthmus, Hellas begins, by our 
people known as Graecia. The first state that presents 
itself is Attica, anciently called Acte^. It touches the 
Isthmus in that part of it which is called Megaris, from the 
colony of Megara^, lying on the opposite side to Pagse^^. 
These two towns are situate at the spot where the Pelo- 
ponnesus projects to the greatest distance ; being placed, one 
on each side, upon the very shoulders of Hellas as it were. 
The Pagaeans, as well as the people of -ZEgosthena^\ belong 
to the jurisdiction of Megara. On the coast there is the 
port of Schoenos^^, the towns of Sidus^^ and Cremmyon^^, the 
^ The people of Parorsea, in Arcadia. Of the two next, nothing appears 
to be known. ^ xhe inhabitants of Typanese, in Elis. 
3 The people of Thrius, in Ehs, near Patrse. 
^ The people of Tritia, in Achaia, now Chalanthistra. 
5 Nero abolished the institutions of the E-oman province of Achaia, 
which had been assigned to the Roman senate, and governed by a pro- 
consul, granting it its Hberty. Yespasian, however, again estabhshed 
the provincial government, and compelled the Greeks to pay a yearly 
tribute. ^ Now Yostitza. 
' See p. 281. ^ From the Grreek a/cr?), " the sea-shore.'* 
^ It stni retains its ancient name. 
Or Pegse. It lay on the borders of the Corinthian G-ulf, being, as 
Pliny says, the utmost point of the Peloponnesus on that side, as Megara 
was on the Saronic Gulf. According to Kruse, Psato occupies its site, but 
according to Lapie, Alepochori. The former is most probably correct. 
1^ On the Corinthian Gulf. Porto Ghermano occupies its site. 
^2 On the Saronic Gulf, to the north of Cenchrese. The present 
Porto Cocosi occupies its site. Now Leandra, according to Ansart. 
Or Crommyon. It was the chief place on the Saronic Gulf, between 
