Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Messene” in book 4, chapter 1 of Pausanias, Description of Greece:
...hink that no city had the name Messene. I base this conclusion principally on Homer's lines. In the catalogue of those who came to Troy he enumerated Pylos, Arene and other towns, but called no town Messene . In the he shows that the Messenians were a tribe and not a city by the following:—For Messenian men carried away sheep from Ithaca.
He is still more clear when speaking about the bow ...
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| † | Messene (Greece) | 452 | 156 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.