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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Laconia, chapter 23 (search)
thrower, the water keeps them under. But if it brings them to the surface, it is judged a bad sign. The craters in Aetna have the same feature; for they lower into them objects of gold and silver and also all kinds of victims. If the fire receives and consumes them, they rejoice at the appearance of a good sign, but if it casts up what has been thrown in, they think misfortune will befall the man to whom this happens. By the road leading from Boeae to Epidaurus Limera is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis （Of the Lake） in the country of the Epidaurians. The city lies on high ground, not far from the sea. Here the sanctuary of Artemis is worth seeing, also that of Asclepius with a standing statue of stone, a temple of Athena on the acropolis, and of Zeus with the title Saviour in front of the harbor. A promontory called Minoa projects into the sea nearOr opposite（with Frazer）, if Minoa is to be identified with the modern Monemvasia. the town. The bay has nothing to distinguish it from al
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Messenia, chapter 31 (search)
s reason Augustus punished the Messenians and the rest of his adversaries, some more, some less. The people of Thuria left their town, which lay originally on high ground, and came down to live in the plain. Nevertheless the upper town is not entirely deserted, but there are remains of the wall and a temple there, called the temple of the Syrian Goddess. A river called Aris flows past the town in the plain. In the interior is a village Calamae and a place Limnae, where is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis （Of the lake）. They say that Teleclus king of Sparta met his end here. On the road from Thuria towards Arcadia are the springs of the Pamisus, at which little children find cures.A road turns to the left from the springs, and after some forty stades is the city of the Messenians under Ithome. It is enclosed not only by Mount Ithome, but on the side towards the Pamisos by Mount Eva. The mountain is said to have obtained its name from the fact that the Bacchic cry of “Evoe” was first utt