And as you go in the direction of Cyparissiæ from Pylos there is a spring under the city close to the sea. They say the water welled up in consequence of Dionysus striking the ground with his thyrsus, and so they call the spring Dionysus’ spring. There are also at Cyparissiæ temples of Apollo and Cyparissian Athene. And at the place called Aulon there is a temple of Æsculapius, and a statue of Aulonian Æsculapius. From this place the river Neda, till it falls into the sea, is the boundary between Messenia and Elis. FOOTNOTES: [53] Odyssey, xxi. 18. [54] Odyssey, xxi. 15, 16. [55] _Ibid._ iii. 488, 489. [56] Iliad, ii. 729. [57] This seems strange. Ingeniosissime διακόψας Corayus. Siebelis defends the text. “Sacerdos, quo majus esset miraculum, videtur dixisse, eum se advolvisse igni, eique admovisse vincula, usque dum solverentur.” [58] Reading ἤμυνεν. [59] Hymn to Demeter, lines 417, 418, 420. [60] See Hom. Il. ix. 122; xxiii. 267. [61] Iliad, ii. 594-600. [62] Crow in Greek is _Corone_. Hence the Paronomasia. [63] That is, _crested lark_. The explanation of this title is given somewhat lower down. [64] _Puteoli_ is the Latin name. [65] Iliad, xi. 682. [66] Iliad, xi. 244. BOOK V.--ELIS. CHAPTER I. Those Greeks, who say that the Peloponnese is divided into five parts and no more, are obliged to admit that the people of Elis as well as the Arcadians dwell in the division of the Arcadians, and that the second division is Achaia, and that the Dorians have the remaining three. The indigenous races that inhabit the Peloponnese are Arcadians and Achæans. And the Achæans were driven out of their own land by the Dorians, but did not however evacuate the Peloponnese, but dispossessed the Ionians that lived in what was then called Ægialus, but is now called after them Achaia. The Arcadians on the other hand have always up to this day remained in Arcadia. But the other parts of the Peloponnese are peopled by strangers. The latest importation were the present Corinthians, who were introduced into the Peloponnese some 217 years ago by the Roman Emperor. And the Dryopes came into the Peloponnese from Mount Parnassus, the Dorians from Mount Œta.