Book 8
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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 stadia from Patrae, are Rhium,Castel di Morea. and opposite to it, Antirrhium.Castel di Rumeli. Not long since the Romans, after the victory at Actium, stationed there a large portion of their army, and at present it is very well peopled, since it is a colony of the Romans. It has also a tolerably good shelter for vessels. Next is Dyme,Sun-set. a city without a harbour, the most westerly of all the cities, whence also it has its name. It was formerly called Stratos.Gossellin suggests that the name Stratos was derived from a spot called the Tomb of Sostratus, held in veneration by the inhabitants of Dyme. It is separated from Eleia at Buprasium by the river Larisus,The Risso or Mana. which rises in a mountain, called by some persons Scollis, but by Homer, the Olenian rock.
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Antimachus having called Dyme Cauconis, some writers suppose that the latter word is used as an epithet derived from the Caucones, who extended as far as this quarter, as I have said before. Others think that it is derived from a river Caucon, in the same way as Thebes has the appellation of Dircaean, and Asopian; and as Argos is called Inachian, and Troy, Simuntis.From the fountain Dirce, and the rivers Asopus, Inachus, and Simoïs.
