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B. vni. c. vi. 22. CORINTH. 63 habited. There are long walls of about 12 stadia in length, stretching on each side of the road towards Lechaaum. The sea-shore, extending hence to Pagas in Megaris, is washed by the Corinthian Gulf. It is curved, and forms the Diolcus, or the passage along which vessels are drawn over the Isthmus to the opposite coast at Schoenus near Cenchre^e. Between Lechaeum and Pagse, anciently, there was the oracle of the Acrsean Juno, and Olmiae, the promontory that forms the gulf, on which are situated CEnoe, and Pagaa ; the former is a fortress of the Megarians ; and CEnoe is a fortress of the Corinthians. Next to Cenchreas * is Schoenus, where is the narrow part of the Diolcus, then Crommyonia. In front of this coast lies the Saronic Gulf, and the Eleusiniac, which is almost the same, and continuous with the Hermionic. Upon the Isthmus is the temple of the Isthmian Neptune, shaded above with a grove of pine trees, where the Corinthians celebrated the Isthmian games. Crommyon 2 is a village of the Corinthian district, and form- erly belonging to that of Megaris, where is laid the scene of the fable of the Crommyonian sow, which, it is said, was the dam of the Calydonian boar, and, according to tradition, the destruction of this sow was one of the labours of Theseus. Tenea is a village of the Corinthian territory, where there was a temple of Apollo Teneates. It is said that Archias, who equipped a colony for Syracuse, was accompanied by a great number of settlers from this place ; and that this settle- ment afterwards flourished more than any others, and at length had an independent form of government of its own. When they revolted from the Corinthians, they attached themselves to the Romans, and continued to subsist when Corinth was destroyed. An answer of an oracle is circulated, which was returned to an Asiatic, who inquired whether it was better to migrate to Corinth ; " Corinth is prosperous, but I would belong to Tenea ; 1 The remains of an ancient place at the distance of about a mile after crossing the Erasinus, (Kephalari,) are probably those of Cenchrese. Smith. 2 Crommyon was distant 120 stadia from Corinth, (Thuc. iv. 45,) and appears to have therefore occupied the site of the ruins near the chapel of St. Theodorus. The village of Kineta, which many modern travellers suppose to correspond to Crommyon, is much farther from Corinth than 120 stadia. Smith.