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ἱρὸν εἱσάμενοι. Pausanias (iii. 16. 5) adds οἷα δὴ θεῷ; this is implied in ἱρόν; a hero had only a τέμενος or a ἡρῷον; Frazer (P. ii. 153-4) gives the differences; the ἡρῷον faced west not east, and ἐναγίζειν (not θύειν) is used for the sacrifices in it, i. e. the worship was chthonian, not celestial.

Ἀρκάδων. The earlier Arcadian war is important as a turningpoint in the policy of the Lacedaemonians; the stubborn resistance of the highlanders of Central Peloponnese made them give up attempting complete conquest (which they had carried out in Messenia), and be content with a hegemony over dependent allies. Pausanias (iii. 7. 3 et al.) puts this war in the time of Charilaus (884-824); but it really belongs to the beginning of the sixth century (65. 1).

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