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Its interior is occupied for the greater part by Arcadia, which, remote from the sea on every side, was ori-
ginally called Drymodes [Note], and at a later period Pelasgis. The cities of Arcadia are, Psophis [Note], Mantinea [Note], Stymphalus [Note], Tegea [Note], Antigonea [Note], Orchomenus [Note], Pheneum [Note], Palantium [Note] (from which the Palatium [Note] at Rome derives its name), Megalopolis [Note], Gortyna [Note], Bucolium, Carnion, Parrhasia [Note], Thelpusa [Note], Melænæ [Note], Heræa [Note], Pylæ [Note], Pallene, Agræ, Epium, Cynæthæ [Note], Lepreon of Arcadia [Note], Parthe-
nium [Note], Alea, Methydrium [Note], Enispe, Macistum, Lampia, Clitorium [Note], and Cleonæ [Note]; between which two last towns is the district of Nemea, commonly known as Bembinadia [Note].
The mountains of Arcadia are, Pholöe [Note], with a town of the same name, Cyllene [Note], Lycæus [Note], upon which is the temple of Lycæan Jupiter; Mænalus [Note], Artemisius [Note], Parthenius [Note], Lampeus [Note], and Nonacris [Note], besides eight others of no note. The rivers are the Ladon [Note], which rises in the marshes of Pheneus [Note], and the Erymanthus [Note], which springs from a mountain of the same name, and flows into the Alpheus.
The other cities of Achaia worthy of mention are those of the Aliphiræi [Note], the Abeatæ [Note], the Pyrgenses [Note], the Paro-
reatæ [Note], the Paragenitæ, the Tortuni, the Typanei [Note], the Thriasii [Note], and the Tritienses [Note]. Domitius Nero [the emperor] granted liberty to the whole of Achaia [Note]. The Peloponnesus, from the Promontory of Malea to the town of Ægium [Note] on the Corinthian Gulf, is 190 miles in length, and 125 miles across from Elis to Epidaurus; the distance being, from Olympia to Argos, through Arcadia, sixty-eight miles. The distance from Olympia to Phlius has been already mentioned [Note]. Throughout the whole of this region, as though nature had been desirous to compensate for the inroads of the sea, seventy-six mountains raise their lofty heads.
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