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 ^ETOLO-DORIAN EMIGRATION. 325 no greater connection, originally, with ./Egina, than with any other city dependent upon Argos. There is, moreover, another point which deserves notice. What was known by the name of the JEginaean scale, as contrasted with and standing in a definite ratio (6:5) with the Euboic scale, related only to weight and money, so far as our knowledge ex- tends : ! we have no evidence to show that the same ratio extend- ed either to measures of length or measures of capacity. But there seems ground for believing that the Pheidonian regulations, taken in their full comprehension, embraced measures of capacity as well as weights : Pheidon, at the same time when he deter- mined the talent, mina, and drachm, seems also to have fixed the dry and liquid measures, the medimnus and metretes, with their parts and multiples : and there existed 2 Pheidonian measures of capacity, though not of length, so far as we know. The .2gin- ajan scale may thus have comprised only a portion of what was established by Pheidon, namely, that which related to weight and money. CHAPTER V. JETOLO-DORIAN EMIGRATION INTO PELOPONNESUS. -ELIS, LACONIA, AND MESSENIA. IT has already been stated that the territory properly called Elis, apart from the enlargement which it acquired by conquest, included the westernmost land in Peloponnesus, south of Achaia, and west of Mount Pholoe and Olenus in Arcadia, but not extending so far southward as the river Alpheius, the course of which lay along the southern portion of Pisatis and on the bor- ders of Triphylia. This territory, which appears in the Odyssey 1 This differs from Boeckh's opinion: see the note in pagt 315. 1 Theophrast. Character, c. 13 ; Pollux, x. 179.