PYRGUS
PYRGUS or
PYRGI.
1.
（
Πύργος, Her. Polyb.;
Πύργοι, Strab.,
Steph. B. sub voce: Eth.
Πυργίτης), the most southerly town of Triphylia in Elis, at the mouth of the river Neda, upon the Messenian frontier (
Strab. viii. p.348), and hence described by Stephanus B. (s. v.) as a Messenian town.
It was one of the settlements of the Minyae. (
Hdt. 4.148.)
It opened its gates to Philip in the Social War. (
Plb. 4.77,
80.) , Leake places Pyrgi at some ancient remains upon the right bank of the Neda, not far from its mouth. (
Morea, vol. i. p. 57, vol. ii. p. 207.)
2.
A town in hollow Elis in a district named Perippia, which Polybius mentions in conjunction with Lasion. (
Plb. 5.102; comp.
Liv. 27.32.)
