Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Messene” in book 4, chapter 23, section 5 of Pausanias, Description of Greece:
...orgus that they should occupy Zacynthos off Cephallenia, becoming islanders instead of mainlanders, and raid the coasts of Laconia with their ships and ravage the land. But Manticlus bade them forget Messene and their hatred of the Lacedaemonians, and sail to Sardinia and win an island which was of the largest extent and greatest fertility.
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