Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Messenia” in book 3, chapter 26 of Pausanias, Description of Greece:
...belong to them rather than to the Lacedaemonians.
Twenty stades from Pephnus is Leuctra. I do not know why the city has this name. If indeed it is derived from Leucippus the son of Perieres, as the Messenia ns say, it is for this reason, I think, that the inhabitants honor Asclepius most of the gods, supposing him to be the son of Arsinoe the daughter of Leucippus. There is a stone statue of Asclepius, a...
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† | Messenia (Greece) | 246 | 132 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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