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After Tricolonus there met their fate in the race Aristomachus and Prias, and then Pelagon, Aeolius and Cronius. Some add to the aforesaid Erythras, the son of Leucon, the son of Athamas, after whom was named Erythrae in
ch. 22
6.22.1
Going forward about a stade from the grave one sees traces of a sanctuary of Artemis, surnamed Cordax because the followers of Pelops celebrated their victory by the side of this goddess and danced the cordax, a dance peculiar to the dwellers round Mount Sipylus. Not far from the sanctuary is a small building containing a bronze chest, in which are kept the bones of Pelops. Of the wall and of the rest of the building there were no remains, but vines were planted over all the district where The founder of the city, they say, was Pisus, the son of Perieres, the son of Aeolus. The people of These Festivals, as well as the hundred and fourth note, which was held by the Arcadians, are called “Non-Olympiads” by the Eleans, who do not include them in a list of Olympiads. At the forty-eighth Festival note, Damophon the son of Pantaleon gave the Eleans reasons for suspecting that he was intriguing against them, but when they invaded the land of When Pyrrhus, the son of Pantaleon, succeeded his brother Damophon as king, the people of Of Pylus in the land of' The Eleans declare that there is a reference to this Pylus in the passage of Homer: The Eleans convinced me that they are right. For the Alpheius does flow through this district, and the passage cannot refer to another Pylus. For the land of the Pylians over against the island
Distant from
And he was descended from the river
Hom. Il. 5.544
Alpheius, that in broad stream flows through the land of the Pylians.
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