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At Tænarum begins the territory of Laconia, inhabited by a free nation, and situate on a gulf 106 miles in circuit, and 38 across. The towns are, Tænarum [Note], Amyclæ [Note], Pheræ [Note], and Leuctra [Note]; and, in the interior, Sparta [Note], Theramne [Note], and the spots where Cardamyle [Note], Pitane [Note], and Anthea formerly stood; the former site of Thyrea [Note], and Gerania [Note]. Here is also Mount Taygetus [Note], the river Eurotas, the Gulf of Egilodes [Note], the town of Psamathus, the Gulf of Gytheum [Note], so called from the town of that name, from which place the passage is the safest across to the island of Crete. All these places are bounded by the Promontory of Malea [Note].
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