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Corinth
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On the way from the Hermae the whole of the region is full of oak-trees. The name of the district, Scotitas （Dark）, is not due to the unbroken woods but to Zeus surnamed Scotitas, and there is a sanctuary of Zeus Scotitas on the left of the road and about ten stades from it. If you go back from the sanctuary to the road, advance a little and then turn again to the left, you come to an image of Heracles and a trophy, which I was told Heracles raised after killing Hippocoon and his sons.
Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
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- Harper's, Scotĭtas
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LACO´NIA
- Smith's Bio, Euryda'midas
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