is a place called Anigræa, on a road narrow and difficult of access. It is on the left hand and extends to the sea, and is a good soil for trees especially olive trees. And as you go up to the mainland there is a place called Thyrea, where 300 picked men of the Argives fought with 300 picked men of the Lacedæmonians for the possession of the land. And as they were all killed except one Spartan and two Argives, the tombs of those that fell in the action were piled up here, but the Lacedæmonians afterwards got a firm footing at the place, as they fought in full force with the Argives, and enjoyed it themselves for a time, and afterwards gave it to the Æginetans who had been driven out of Ægina by the Athenians. And in my day the Argives inhabited the district of Thyrea, and they say that they recovered it justly by conquest. Next to that burial-ground you come to Athene, where those Æginetans dwelt, and another village Neris, and a third Eua, the largest of the three villages, and Polemocrates has a temple in it. He was the son of Machaon, and brother of Alexanor, and he heals the people here, and has divine honours from the inhabitants. And beyond these villages extends Mount Parnon, which is the boundary between the Lacedæmonians and Argives and people of Tegea. And some stone Hermæ stand as border stones to mark the boundaries, and the place gets its name from them. And there is a river called Tanaus, the only river which flows from Mount Parnon. It flows through Argive territory into the Thyreatic gulf. FOOTNOTES: [13] Iliad xvi. 490, 491, cf. also Hes. Th. 444. [14] Odyss., xi. 261-65. [15] Iliad, ii. 117. [16] Hesiod. _Works and Days._ 265. Cf. also Ovid, A.A. i. 655, 656. [17] “Inventus forsan eodem modo est quo Eurotas, iii. i.” _Siebelis_. [18] Iliad, ii. 571. [19] Hymn to Demeter, 474-476. [20] ii. 120. [21] See the story told by Addison, _Spectator_, No. 483. [22] Hdt. vi. 77. [23] The word _Gorgon_ means _grim_, terrible. [24] Il. xxiv. 609. [25] See Il. v. 127, 128. [26] Il. ix. 457. [27] Iliad, ii. 571. [28] Iliad, iv. 193, 194. Is Pausanias nodding here? [29] _Qu._ “Now Lerna by the sea” (ἡ κατὰ Θάλασσαν Λέρνα). Cf. a little below. BOOK III.--LACONIA. CHAPTER I.