Book 8
5.2
Next to Taenarum on the voyage to Onugnathus and to MaleaeBy others written in the singular number, Malea, now C. St. Angelo. is Amathus, (Psamathus,) a city; then follow Asine, and Gythium,The site of Gythium is identified as between Marathonisi and Trinissa. the naval arsenal of Sparta, situated at an interval of 240 stadia. Its station for vessels, they say, is excavated by art. Farther on, between Gythium and Acraea, is the mouth of the Eurotas.The Iri, or Vasili Potamo. To this place the voyage along the coast is about 240 stadia; then succeeds a marshy tract, and a village, Helos, which formerly was a city, according to Homer; They who occupied Amyclae, and Helos, a small town on the sea-coast.Il. ii. 584.Il. ii. 584. They say that it was founded by Helius the son of Perseus. There is a plain also call Leuce; then Cyparissia,Rupina, or Castel Rampano. The plain of Leuce is traversed by the river Mario-revina. a city upon a peninsula, with a harbour; then Onugnathus with a harbour; next Boea, a city; then Maleae. From these cities to Onugnathus are 150 stadia. There is also Asopus,The site of Asopus appears, according to the ruins indicated in the Austrian map, to have been situated a little to the north of Rupina. a city in Laconia.
