242 V. 4, 2. An _Achæan_ from Helice occurs as the cotemporary of Hercules in Theocrit. XXV. 165; a greater inconsistency with the received chronology than poets usually permit themselves. 243 Pausan. VII. 1. _ 244 Orchomenos_, pp. 398, 477. 245 Aristot. Pol. V. 8, according to the most probable reading. 246 Pind. Nem. XI. 32. 247 Peloponnesus is called the ἀκρόπολις γῆς in Phlegon de Olymp. p. 129, in Meurs. Op. vol. VII. 248 As Pouqueville several times remarks. The mountain-chains are more connected by the Œnean promontory, and the mountains running westward from Sicyon and joining mount Cyllene. 249 Ap. Gemin. Elem. Astron. XIV. p. 55, in Petavius Uranolog. The passage is from the work of Dicæarchus, entitled Καταμετρήσεις τῶν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ ὀρῶν, concerning which see Pliny N. H. II. 65, and Suidas in Δικαίαρχος. 250 Apollodorus ap. Steph. Byz. (p. 400, ed. Heyne.) Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1951, 15. According to Capt. Peytier Cyllene is 7266 Paris feet in height, Taygetus 7434, Parthenion (Zagura) 6095. These measurements make Taygetus somewhat higher than Cyllene. 251 Holland in Walpole’s Travels, p. 426. 252 Aristot. Meteorol. I. 13. 253 See Polybius IV. 21, 1, who particularly mentions Cynætha. Close by was the cold spring of Λοῦσοι, or Λοῦσσα; and Sprengel in his translation of Theophrastus, vol. II. p. 383, well corrects in Theophrast. IX. 15, 8, τὸ δὲ κώνειον ἄριστον περὶ Λοῦσα καὶ ἐν τοῖς ψυχροτάτοις τόποις. 254 From the Journal of Fourmont the younger. 255 Polyb. V. 22. 256 According to the interpretation of the Venetian Scholiast and others. 257 Abaris is said to have appeased a pestilence, which had been occasioned by this heat; Jamblich. in Vit. Pythagor. 19. Compare Apollon. Dyscol. Hist. Mirab. c. 4, p. 9, ed. Meurs. 258 Theophrastus calls Laconia ῥοώδης, ἔπομβρος, καὶ ἔλειος (de causis pluviæ III. 3, 4). 259 ῥωχμοὺς ἀπὸ σεισμῶν ἔχουσα, Eustath. ad Hom. p. 294, 10, p. 1478, 43, ed. Rom. 260 See Des Monceaux in Corneille le Bruyn, tom. V. p. 465. 261 Alcman ap. Athen. I. p. 31 C. Theognis, v. 879 sq. ed. Bekker. 262 Book III. ch. 2, § 3. Boeckh’s Economy of Athens, book IV. ch. 19. 263 Ἀλιμενότης, Xenoph. Hell. IV. 8, 7. 264 In Strabo VIII. p. 366. See Cresphont. fr. 1, ed. Dindorf. 265 It has been beautifully said of this district that ὀφρυᾷ τε καὶ κοιλαίνεται, Strabo VIII. p. 381. 266 Polybius XVI. 16. 4. places it about west-south-west from Corinth. Comp. Athenæus II. p. 43 E. Pindar Olymp. XI. 30. means the same place. 267 Aristot. Meteor. I. 14. p. 755 C, and Aristides, Ægypt. vol. II. p. 351, ed. Jebb. 268 Athen. V. p. 219 A. Lucian. Icaromenipp. 18. Nav. 20. Liv. XXVII. 31. Schol. Aristoph. Av. 969. Zenobius III. 57. 269 According to Fourmont’s Journal and Gell’s Argolis.