COLO´NIDES
COLO´NIDES (
Κολωνίδες), a town in the SW. of Messenia, described by Pausanias as standing upon a height at a short distance from the sea, and 40 stadia from Asine.
The inhabitants affirmed that they were not Messenians, but a colony led from Athens by Colaenus.
It is mentioned by Plutarch (
Plut. Phil. 18) under the name of Colonis (
Κολωνίς) as a place which Philopoemen marched to relieve; but according to the narrative of Livy (
39.49) Corone was the place towards which Philopoemen marched. [
CORONE] The site of Colonides is uncertain. Leake places it upon the Messenian gulf at
Kastélia, where are some remains of ancient buildings, N. of
Koroni, the site of Asine; but the French commission suppose it to have stood on the bay of Phoenicus, NW. of the promontory Acritas. (
Paus. 4.34. § §8, 12;
Ptol. 3.15.7, who calls it
Κολώνη; Leake,
Peloponnesiaca, p. 195; Boblaye,
Recherches, &c., p. 112.)