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B. viii. c. in. 20, 21. ELIS. 21 from the Minyse descendants of the Argonauts, who were banished from Lemnos, and went to Lacedasmon, and thence to Triphylia, and settled about Arene, in the country now called Hypsesia, which however no longer contains places built by the Minyse. Some of these people, with Theras the son of Autesion, who was a descendant of Polynices, having set sail to the country between Cyrenasa and the island of Crete, "formerly Calliste, but afterwards called Thera," according to Callima- chus, founded Thera, the capital of Gyrene, and gave the same name to the city, and to the island. 20. Between the Anigrus and the mountain from which the Jardanes rises, a meadow and a sepulchre are shown, and the Achsese, which are rocks broken off from the same mountain, above which was situated, as I have said, the city Samos. Samos is not mentioned by any of the authors of Peripli, or Circumnavigations; because perhaps it had been long since destroyed, and perhaps also on account of its position. For the Poseidium is a grove, as I have said, near the sea, a lofty eminence rises above it, situated in front of the present Samicum, where Samos once stood, so that it cannot be seen from the sea. Here also is the plain called Samicus, from which we may further conjecture that there was once a city Samos. According to the poem Rhadine, of which Stesichorus seems to have been the author, and which begins in this manner, " Come, tuneful Muse, Erato, begin the melodious song, in praise of the lovely Samian youths, sounding the strings of the delightful lyre : " these youths were natives of this Samos. For he says that Rhadine being given in marriage to the tyrant, set sail from Samos to Corinth with a westerly wind, and therefore cer- tainly not from the Ionian Samos. By the same wind her brother, who was archi-theorus, arrived at Delphi. Her cousin, who was in love with her, set out after her in a chariot to Corinth. The tyrant put both of them to death, and sent away the bodies in a chariot, but changing his mind, he recalled the chariot, and buried them. 21. From this Pylus and the Lepreum to the Messenian Pylus 1 and the Coryphasium, fortresses situated upon the sea, 1 The position of Pylus of Messenia is uncertain. D'Anville places it