Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK VIII.?ARCADIA. CHAPTER I. THE parts of Arcadia near Argolis are inhabited by the people of Tegea and Mantinea. They and the other Arcadians are the inland division of the Peloponnese. For the Corinthians come first at the Isthmus: and next them by the sea are the Epidanrians: and by Epidaurns and Troezen and Hermion is the Gulf of Argolis, and the maritime parts of Argolis: and next are the states of the Lacedaemonians, and next comes Messenia, which touches the sea at Mothone and Pylos and near Cyparissiae. At Lecheeum the Sicyonians border upon the Corinthians, being next to Argolis on that side: and next to Sicyon are tho AchBeans on the soa-shore, and the other part of the Peloponnese opposite the Echinades is occupied by Elis. And the borders between Elis and Messenia are by Olympia and the mouth of the Alpheus, and between Elis and Achaia the neighbourhood of Dyme. These states that I have mentioned border on the sea, but the Arcadians live in the interior and are shut off from the sea entirely: from which circumstance Homer describes them as having come to Troy not in their own ships but in transports provided by Agamemnon.1 The Arcadians say that Pelasgus was the first settler in their land. It is probable that others also camo with Pelasgus and that he did not come alone. For in that case what subjects would he have had ? I think moreover that Pelasgus was eminent for strength and beauty and judgment beyond others, and that was why he was appointed king over them. This is the description of him by Asius. Divine Pelasgus on the tree-clad hills Black jearth brought forth, to be of mortal race. 1 Iliad, ii. 612. And Pelasgus when he became king contrived huts that men should be free from cold and rain, and not be exposed to the fierce sun, a...