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Fifty stades, I conjecture, from
This is one of the sayings told as a holy secret at the mysteries which they celebrate in honor of Hera. The story told by the people in
From
it is fertile in trees, especially the olive. As you go up inland from this is a place where three hundred picked Argives fought for this land with an equal number of specially chosen Lacedaemonian warriors note. All were killed except one Spartan and two Argives, and here were raised the graves for the dead. But the Lacedaemonians, having fought against the Argives with all their forces, won a decisive victory; at first they themselves enjoyed the fruits of the land, but afterwards they assigned it to the Aeginetans, when they were expelled from their island by the Athenians note. In my time Thyreatis was inhabited by the Argives, who say that they recovered it by the award of an arbitration note
2.38.6As you go from these common graves you come to Athene, where Aeginetans once made their home, another village
Above the villages extends Mount Parnon, on which the Lacedaemonian border meets the borders of the Argives and Tegeatae. On the borders stand stone figures of Hermes, from which the name of the place is derived. A river called Tanaus, which is the only one descending from Mount Parnon, flows through the
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