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 14 STRABO. CASAUB. 341. Scollis is a rocky mountain, common to the Dymsei, and Tritoeenses, and Eleii, situated close to Lampeia, another moun- tain in Arcadia, which is distant from Elis 130 stadia, from Tritaea 100, and an equal number [from Dyme] Achaean cities. Aleisium is the present Alesiasum, a place near Amphidolis, where the neighbouring people hold a market every month. It is situated upon the mountain road leading from Elis to Olympia. Formerly, it was a city of the Pi satis, the bound- aries of the country being different at different times on ac- count of the change of masters. The poet also calls Aleisium, the hill of Aleisius, when he says, " Till we brought our horses to Buprasium rich in grain, and to the Olenian rock, and to the place which is called the hill of Aleisium," l for we must understand the words by the figure hyperbaton. Some also point out a river Aleisius. 11. Since a tribe of Caucones is mentioned in Triphylia near Messenia, and as Dyme is called by some writers Cauconis, and since between Dyme and Tritaea in the Dymaean district there is also a river called Caucon, a question arises respecting the Caucones, whether there are two nations of this name, one situate about Triphylia, and another about Dyme, Elis, and Caucon. This river empties itself into another which is called Teutheas, in the masculine gender, and is the name of a small town that was one of those that composed Dyme ; except that the town is of the feminine gender, and is pronounced Teuthea, without the s, and the last syllable is long. There is a temple of Diana Nemydia (Nemeaea?). The Teutheas discharges itself into the Achelous, which runs by Dyme, and has the same name as that in Acarnania, and the name also of Peirus. In the lines of Hesiod, " he lived near the Olenian rock on the banks of the broad Peirus," some change the last word Heipoio to IIwpoio, but improperly. 2 [But it is the opinion of some writers, who make the Caucones a subject of inquiry, that when Minerva in the Odyssey, who has assumed the form of Mentor, says to Nestor ; " At sun-rise I go to the magnanimous Caucones, where a debt neither of a late date nor of small amount is owing to me. 3 When Telemachus comes to thy house send him with thy son, thy chariot, and thy horses ;" 1 II. ii. 756. 2 2 This passage in brackets is an interpolation to explain the subse- quent inquiry who the Caucones were. Kramer. 3 II. iii. 636.