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 B. vin. c. vii. 5. ACHAIA. 73 JEgeira l is situated upon a hill. Bura is at the distance from the sea-coast of about 40 stadia. It was swallowed up by an earthquake. It is said, that from the fountain Sybaris which is there, the river Sybaris in Italy had its name. JE,ga (for this is the name by which JEgae is called) is not now inhabited, but the ^Egienses occupy the territory. JEgium, however, is well inhabited. It was here, it is said, that Ju- piter was suckled by a goat, as Aratus also says, " the sacred goat, which is said to have applied its teats to the lips of Jupiter." 2 He adds, that, "the priests call it the Olenian goat of Jupiter," and indicates the place because it was near Olenus. There also is Ceryneia, situated upon a lofty rock. This place, and Helice, belong to the JEgienses, 3 and the ^Enarium, [Homari- um,] the grove of Jupiter, where the Acheeans held their con- vention, when they were to deliberate upon their common affairs. The river Selinus flows through the city of the JEgienses. It has the same name as that which was beside Artemisium at Ephesus, and that in Elis, which has its course along the spot, that Xenophon 4 says he purchased in compliance with the injunction of an oracle, in honour of Artemis. There is also another Selinus in the country of the Hyblaei Mega- renses, whom the Carthaginians expelled. Of the remaining Achaean cities, or portions, Rhypes is not inhabited, but the territory called Rhypis was occupied by JEgienses and Pharians. ^Eschylus also says somewhere, "the sacred Bura, and Rhypes struck with lightning." Myscellus, the founder of Croton, was a native of Rhypes. Leuctrum, belonging to the district Rhypis, was a demus of Rhypes. Between these was Patrae, a considerable city, and in the intervening country, at the distance of 40 sta- dia from Patrae, are Rhium, 5 and opposite to it, Antir- rhium. 6 Not long since the Romans, after the victory at Ac- tium, stationed there a large portion of their army, and at 1 Leake places the port of ^Egeira at Maura-Litharia, the Black Rocks, on the left of which on the summit of a hill are some vestiges of an an- cient city, which must have been J3geira. 3 Phoen. 163. 3 See above, 3. * Anab. v. 3. 8. 6 Castel di Morea. 6 Castel di Bumeli.