Book 8
8.2
This city, together with Orchomenus, Heraea, Cleitor, Pheneus, Stymphalus, Maenalus, Methydrium, Caphyeis, and Cynaetha, either exist no longer, or traces and signs only of their existence are visible. There are still some remains of Tegea, and the temple of the Alaean Minerva remains. The latter is yet held in some little veneration, as well as the temple of the Lycaean Jupiter on the Lycaean mountain. But the places mentioned by the poet, as Rhipe, and Stratia, and the windy Enispe, are difficult to discover, and if discovered, would be of no use from the deserted condition of the country.
8.3
The mountains of note, besides Cyllene, are Pholoë,Mauro vuni. Lycaeum,Mintha. Maenalus, and the Parthenium,Partheni. as it is called, which extends from the territory of Tegea to that of Argos.
8.4
We have spoken of the extraordinary circumstances relative to the Alpheius, Eurotas, and the Erasinus, which issues out of the lake Stymphalis, and now flows into the Argive country.
8.4
Formerly, the Erasinus had no efflux, for the Berethra, which the Arcadians call Zerethra,Called Katavothra by modern Greeks. had no outlet, so that the city of the Stymphalii, which at that time was situated upon the lake, is now at the distance of 50 stadia.
8.4
The contrary was the case with the Ladon, which was at one time prevented running in a continuous stream by the obstruction of its sources. For the Berethra near Pheneum, through which it now passes, fell in in consequence of an earthquake, which stopped the waters of the river, and affected far down the veins which supplied its source. This is the account of some writers.
