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 '288 PLINT's NATUEAL HISTOET. [Book IT. reatse^ tlie Paragenitae, the Tortimi, the Typanei^, the Thriasii^, and the Tritienses^. Domitius Nero [the emperor] granted liberty to the whole of Achaia^ The Peloponnesus, from the Promontory of Malea to the town of ^gium^ on the Corinthian Grulf, 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 men- tioned'^. 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. CHAP. 11. (7.) — ATTICA. At the narrow neck of the Isthmus, Hellas begins, by our people known as Grsecia. The first state that presents itself is Attica, anciently called Acte^. It touches the Isthmus in that part of it which is called Megaris, from the colony of Megara^, lying on the opposite side to Pagse^". These two towns are situate at the spot where the Pelo- ponnesus projects to the greatest distance ; being placed, one on each side, upon the very shoulders of Hellas as it were. The Pagaeans, as well as the people of -Sgosthena", belong to the jurisdiction of Megara. On the coast there is the port of Schoenos^"^, the towns of Sidus^^ and Cremmyon^^, the ^ The people of Parorsea, in Arcadia. Of the two next, nothing appears to be known. ^ The inhabitants of Typanese, ia Elis. 3 The people of Thrius, in EUs, near Patrse. ^ The people of Tritia, in Achaia, now Chalanthistra. 5 Nero abolished the institutions of the Roman province of Achaia, which had been assigned to the Roman senate, and governed by a pro- consul, granting it its liberty. Vespasian, however, again established the provincial government, and compelled the Greeks to pay a yearly tribute. ^ Now Vostitza. ' See p. 281. ^ From the Grreek aicr^}, " the sea-shore." ^ It still retains its ancient name. ^° Or Pegse. It lay on the borders of the Corinthian Gulf, being, as Pliny says, the utmost point of the Peloponnesus on that side, as Megara was on the Saronic Gulf. According to Kruse, Psato occupies its site, but according to Lapie, Alepochori. The former is most probably correct. ^* On the Corinthian Gulf. Porto Ghermano occupies its site. ^2 On the Saronic Gulf, to the north of Cenclu-ese. The present Porto Cocosi occupies its site. ^-^ Now Leandra, according to Ansart.
 * Or Crommyon. It was the chief place on the Saronic Gulf, between