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4.3
Next is Methone.According to Pausanias, Mothone, or Methone, was the Pedasus of Homer. It is the modern Modon. This city, called by the poet Pedasus, was one of the seven, it is said, which Agamemnon promised to Achilles. There Agrippa killed, in the Actian war, Bogus, the king of the Maurusii, a partisan of Antony’s, having got possession of the place by an attack by sea
4.4
Continuous with Methone is Acritas,Cape Gallo. The Gulf of Messenia is now the Gulf of Coron. where the Messenian Gulf begins, which they call also Asinaeus from Asine, a small city, the first we meet with on the gulf, and having the same name as the Hermionic Asine.
4.4
This is the commencement of the gulf towards the west. Towards the east are the Thyrides,The name Thyrides, the little gates, is probably derived from the fable which placed the entrance of the infernal regions at Taenarum, Cape Matapan. as they are called, bordering upon the present Laconia near Caenepolis,For Cinaethium I read Caenepolis, as suggested by Falconer, and ap proved by Coray. and Taenarum.
