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 B. vin. c. vin. 5. ARCADIA. 77 5. 1 Polybius having said, that from Malese towards the north as far as the Danube the distance is about 10,000 stadia, is cor- rected by Artemidorus, and not without reason ; for, accord- ing to the latter, from Malese to JEgium the distance is 1400 stadia, from hence to Cirrha is a distance by sea of 200 stadia ; hence by Heraclea to Thaumaci a journey of 500 stadia ; thence to Larisa and the river Peneus, 340 stadia; then through Tempe to the mouth of the Peneus, 240 stadia ; then to Thessalonica, 660 stadia; then to the Danube, through Idomene, and Stobi, and Dardanii, it is 3200 stadia. Ac- cording to Artemidorus, therefore, the distance from the Danube to Malese would be 6500. The cause of this differ- ence is that he does not give the measurement by the shortest road, but by some accidental route pursued by a general of an army. It is not, perhaps, out of place to add the founders men- tioned by Ephorus, who settled colonies in Peloponnesus after the return of the Heracleidas ; as Aletes, the founder of Cor- inth ; Phalces, of Sicyon ; Tisamenus, of cities in Achaea ; Ox- ylus, of Elis, Cresphontes, of Messene ; Eurysthenes and Pro- cles, of Lacedaemon ; Temenus and Cissus, of Argos ; and Agrceus and De'iphontes, of the towns about Acte. 1 The following section is corrupt in the original ; it is translated ac- cording to the corrections proposed by Kramer, Gossellin, &c.