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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.
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In the intervening distance, if we begin from the Thyrides, we meet with Oetylus,Vitulo. by some called Beitylus; then Leuctrum, a colony of the Leuctri in Boeotia; next, situated upon a steep rock, Cardamyle;Scardamula. then Pherae, bordering upon Thuria, and Gerenia, from which place they say Nestor had the epithet Gerenian, because he escaped thither, as we have mentioned before. They show in the Gerenian territory a temple of Aesculapius Triccaeus, copied from that at the Thessalian Tricca. Pelops is said to have founded Leuctrum, and Charadra, and Thalami, now called the Boeotian Thalami, having brought with him, when he married his sister Niob to Amphion, some colonists from Boeotia. The Nedon, a different river from the Neda, flows through Laconia, and discharges its waters near Pherae. It has upon its banks a remarkable temple of the Nedusian Minerva. At Poeaessa also there is a temple of the Nedusian Minerva, which derives its name from a place called Nedon,As Strabo remarks, in b. x., that the temple was built by Nestor on his return from Troy, Falconer suggests that it might have derived its name from the river Nedon, near Gerenia, the birth-place of Nestor. whence, they say, Teleclus colonized Poeaessa,In the island of Cos. and Echeiae, and Tragium.
