522 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, not now used by the inhabitants of the Pelo- 
IX. ' 
v ^-'^ ponnesus. The mountain over which the defile 
leads is still called Treto by the natives ; it 
extends from east to west, along- the southern 
side of the Plain of Nemea. And this defile is 
all that Pausanias means by "Tretus;" but some 
persons have believed that there was a town 
called Tretum, lying to the north of^4rgos l . We 
Cave of the made diligent inquiry after the Cave of the 
Netnecean' 
Li<m. Nemecean Lion, mentioned by the same author ; 
being well assured that in a country famous for 
the caverns contained in its limestone moun- 
tains, an allusion of this kind would not have 
been made by so accurate an author without 
actual reference to some cave having borne this 
appellation. The guides from Argos knew no- 
thing of it ; but the people of Nemea afterwards 
brought us back again to visit a hollow rock, 
hardly deserving the name of a cave, although 
no unlikely place for the den of a lion. As 
other travellers may be curious to visit it, we 
shall describe its situation in such a manner 
(l) " TRETUM, petite ville de 1'Argolide, presqu'au nord d'Argos. 
Dans les montagnes prcis de cette ville, on inontroit une caverne oil se 
retiroit, disoit-on, le lion fe"roce dont les poetes out atlribue' la mort k 
Hercule," &c. Encyclopddie Methodique. Geographic /Ineienne, par 
Mentelle. Tome troisihne, p. 373. & Paris, 1792. 
