To proceed, however, with the traces of the Pelasgi in Peloponnesos. It has sometimes been supposed that no proof exists of their having held any part of this peninsula excepting Argos, Achaia and Arcadia;[93] but erroneously, for we have seen the Leleges, a Pelasgian tribe, in Laconia; and we find a settlement of the Pelasgi in Messenia. Here also at Andania flourished the Pelasgian worship of the Dii Kabyri from Samothrace;[94] colony of Leleges, under Pylos, son of Cleison, settled at Pylos on the Coryphasian promontory.[95] The Caucons held Cyparissos;[96] that is both in the interior of Messenia and along the sea coast we find settlements of the race which peopled the whole peninsula. Passing northward into Elis, we immediately on crossing the Neda find Caucons in the Lepreatis,[97] where, probably, in proof that the tribe originated there, they showed in Strabo’s[98] time the tomb of Caucon. They had likewise a river Caucon[99] in the north of Elis, and in short the whole country from the Neda to the Larissos bore anciently the name of Cauconia.[100] Some, however, maintain that they were found only at three points on the coast, that is, in the south of Triphylia,[101] in the north near Dyme, and at Hollow Elis on the Peneios, which Aristotle considered their chief seat.[102] Nevertheless Antimachos regarded the Epeians as Caucons,[103] and since these inhabited the whole western coast from Messenia northward, we must consider Elis as the principal though not the original seat of this tribe; for we find them represented as issuing from Arcadia, and we have already shown that they were settled in Paphlagonia, and were denominated a Trojan tribe. Footnote 93: Thirl. Hist. of Greece, i. 38. Footnote 94: Paus. iv. 1. Müll. Dor. i. 116. Footnote 95: Paus. iv. 36. i. Footnote 96: Strab. viii. 3. 156. Footnote 97: Ibid. viii. 3. 152. Footnote 98: Ibid. viii. 3. 157. Footnote 99: Ibid. viii. 3. 151. Footnote 100: Ibid. viii. 3. 157. Footnote 101: Ibid. viii. 3. 151. The Caucons, however, mentioned by Athena in the Odyssey (θ. 366.) were different from those of Triphylia. The Triphylian Caucons held all the land lying south-east of Pylos on the way to Lacedæmon. Strab. viii. 3. 157. Footnote 102: Strab. viii. 3. 157. Footnote 103: Ibid. Turning our faces eastward from the promontory Araxos, we discover along the coast a chain of Pelasgian settlements founded by Ionians from Athens.[104] To complete our list of proofs that there was no spot in all Hellas not possessed by the Pelasgi, we find a prince of that race, and named Pelasgos, receiving the goddess Demeter at Corinth in the remotest periods of the mythology.[105] Footnote 104: Herod. vii. 14. Footnote 105: Paus. i. 14. 2.