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5. note Polybius having said, that from Maleae towards the north
as far as the Danube the distance is about 10,000 stadia, is corrected by Artemidorus, and not without reason; for, according to the latter, from Maleae to Aegium the distance is
It is not, perhaps, out of place to add the founders mentioned by Ephorus, who settled colonies in Peloponnesus after the return of the Heracleidae; as Aletes, the founder of Corinth; Phalces, of Sicyon; Tisamenus, of cities in Achaea; Oxylus, of Elis, Cresphontes, of Messene; Eurysthenes and Procles, of Lacedaemon; Temenus and Cissus, of Argos; and Agraeus and Deiphontes, of the towns about Acte.
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