oracle is differently, and perhaps more correctly, emended by Lobeck ad Phrynich. Par. p. 621.) 607 See the Fragments as arranged by Frank, _Callinus_, p. 168. 608 Ap. Strab. VIII. p. 362. 609 By Pausauias and Diodorus de Virt. et Vit. p. 540. 610 Pausan. IV. 4. 4. 611 Justin. III. 5. says eighty years. Thirty-nine years are probably too short a period; for, as the Spartans did not marry before the age of thirty (book IV. ch. 4. § 3.), the difference between grandfathers and grandchildren must have been on an average sixty years. If the interval had been only thirty-nine years, most of those engaged in the second war would have been the _sons_ of the conquerors of Ithome. 612 The same date is in the Parian Marble, Ep. 34. But Pausanias IV. 15. 1. proves _only from Tyrtæus_ that Rhianus was incorrect in calling Leotychides a contemporary of the _second_ war; consequently the numbers cannot have much authority. Pausanias had however various means of judging: _e.g._ after the expulsion and subjugation of the inhabitants no Messenian occurred in the Ὀλυμπιονῖκαι, Pausan. VI. 2. 5. Different writers however vary remarkably. Dinarchus in Demosth. p. 99. 29. places the subjection of the Messenians 400 years before their restoration (370 B.C.); Lycurgus in Leocrat. p. 155. 500; Isocrates Archidam. p. 121 B. only 300; but Bekker reads 400 from a manuscript, which agrees better with the early date of Isocrates for the subjection of the Messenians. Plutarch Reg. Apoph. p. 126. only 230 years before the liberation by Epaminondas. 613 It has been proved by the succession of the excerpts of Diodorus that he placed the second Messenian war at the same time as Eusebius: Krebs Lectiones Diodoreæ, Epimetrum. Now Eusebius places the beginning of the second war at Olymp. 35. 3. (638 B.C.), and Tyrtæus at Ol. 36. 3. (636). 614 Pausan. IV. 6. 2. (comp. Frank, _Callinus_, pp. 172, 196. who proposes Polydôrô without any reason); see Polyæn. I. 15. 615 See above, ch. 5. § 12, 13. 616 Strabo VIII. p. 360. 617 In the time of Augustus it was in Messenia. The name Nedon was only preserved in that of Ἀθηνᾶ Νεδουσία. 618 IV. 4. 2. 619 Strabo V. p. 257. has nearly the same account as that of the _Lacedæmonians_ in Pausanias; and so also Heraclides Ponticus, and Justin. III. 4. _ 620 Annalium memoria vatumque carminibus_, Tacit. Annal. IV. 43. 621 Pausan. IV. 14. 2. See above, ch. 5. § 13. 622 Probably tradition had preserved some report of a sacrifice to Artemis Orthia (Iphigenia), concerning which see book II. ch. 9. 623 Plutarch also mentions the same expedition, de Superstit. 7. p. 71, Hutten. 624 Fragm. 25. 625 Pausan. IV. 4. Strabo VI. p. 257. 626 IV. 14. 2. 23. 3.