Next to Temenium is Nauplia, the naval station of the Argives. Its name is derived from its being accessible to ships. Here they say the fiction of the moderns originated respecting Nauplius and his sons, for Homer would not have omitted to mention them, if Palamedes displayed so much wisdom and intelligence, and was unjustly put to death; and if Nauplius had destroyed so many people at Caphareus.[165] But the genealogy offends both against the mythology, and against chronology. For if we allow that he was the son of Neptune,[166] how could he be the son of Amymone, and be still living in the Trojan times. Next to Nauplia are caves, and labyrinths constructed in them, which caves they call Cyclopeia. 3. Then follow other places, and after these the Hermionic Gulf. Since the poet places this gulf in the Argive territory, we must not overlook this division of the circumference of this country. It begins from the small city Asine;[167] then follow Hermione,[168] and Trœzen.[169] In the voyage along the coast the island Calauria[170] lies opposite; it has a compass of 30 stadia, and is separated from the continent by a strait of 4 stadia. 4. Then follows the Saronic Gulf; some call it a Pontus or sea, others a Porus or passage, whence it is also termed the Saronic pelagos or deep. The whole of the passage, or Porus, extending from the Hermionic Sea, and the sea about the Isthmus (of Corinth) to the Myrtoan and Cretan Seas, has this name. To the Saronic Gulf belong Epidaurus,[171] and the island in front of it, Ægina; then Cenchreæ, the naval station of the Corinthians towards the eastern parts; then Schœnus,[172] a harbour at the distance of 45 stadia by sea; from Maleæ the whole number of stadia is about 1800. At Schœnus is the Diolcus, or place where they draw the vessels across the Isthmus: it is the narrowest part of it. Near Schœnus is the temple of the Isthmian Neptune. At present, however, I shall not proceed with the description of these places, for they are not situated within the Argive territory, but resume the account of those which it contains. 5. And first, we may observe how frequently Argos is mentioned by the poet, both by itself and with the epithet designating it as Achæan Argos, Argos Jasum, Argos Hippium, or Hippoboton, or Pelasgicum. The city, too, is called Argos, “Argos and Sparta”--[173] those who occupied Argos “and Tiryns;”[174] and Peloponnesus is called Argos, “at our house in Argos,”[175] for the city could not be called his house; and he calls the whole of Greece, Argos, for he calls all Argives, as he calls them Danai, and Achæans. He [CAS. 369] distinguishes the identity of name by epithets; he calls Thessaly, Pelasgic Argos; “all who dwelt in Pelasgic Argos;”[176] and the Peloponnesus, the Achæan Argos; “if we should return to Achæan Argos;”[177] “was he not at Achæan Argos?”[178]