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373 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 6
ranged in regular succession on its coast, it formerly had the name of ÆgialosFrom the Greek word ai)gialo\s, "the sea-shore.". The first place there is Lecheæ, already mentioned, a port of the Corinthians; next to which is OlyrosSituate on the coast, about five miles from the present Vostitza., a fortress of the people of PelleneIn the interior. The modern Trikala stands on its site.; then the former towns of Helice and BuraHelice was the place of meeting of the Achæan league; when, in B.C. 373, together with Bura, it was swallowed up by an earthquake, and their sites were covered by the sea. Such of the people as escaped fled to the places mentioned above by Pliny. Pouqueville says that some remains of these places may still be seen emerging from the sea., and the places in which their inhabitants took refuge after their towns had been swallowed up by the sea, SicyonThe modern Basilico or Vasilika stands on its site. namely, ÆgiraThe places called Paleo-Kastro and Vostitza are supp
776 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 6
ins, who were formerly called Epei, with the city of ElisSome small ruins of it are to be seen at the foot of the hill of Kaloskopi, its ancient Acropolis. in the interior, and, at a distance of twelve miles from Phlius, being also in the interior, the temple of Olympian Jupiter, which by the universal celebrity of its games, gives to Greece its mode of reckoningBy Olympiads, which were reckoned according to the order of celebration of the Olympic games: they were established in the year B.C. 776, and were celebrated every fourth year.. Here too once stood the town of PisaIt was destroyed in the year B.C. 572 by the Eleans, not a vestige of it being left. The Alpheus retains the name of Alfio., the river Alpheus flowing past it. On the coast there is the Promontory of IchthysOr "the Fish," from its peculiar shape. It is now called Katakolo.. The river Alpheus is navigable six miles, nearly as far as the towns of AulonProbably situate in the valley between Elis and Messenia, which was
572 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 6
ill of Kaloskopi, its ancient Acropolis. in the interior, and, at a distance of twelve miles from Phlius, being also in the interior, the temple of Olympian Jupiter, which by the universal celebrity of its games, gives to Greece its mode of reckoningBy Olympiads, which were reckoned according to the order of celebration of the Olympic games: they were established in the year B.C. 776, and were celebrated every fourth year.. Here too once stood the town of PisaIt was destroyed in the year B.C. 572 by the Eleans, not a vestige of it being left. The Alpheus retains the name of Alfio., the river Alpheus flowing past it. On the coast there is the Promontory of IchthysOr "the Fish," from its peculiar shape. It is now called Katakolo.. The river Alpheus is navigable six miles, nearly as far as the towns of AulonProbably situate in the valley between Elis and Messenia, which was so called. It is not elsewhere mentioned; and its ruins are thought to be those near the sea, on the right bank of