Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Messene” in book 6, chapter 2 of Pausanias, Description of Greece:
...ean blood.
However, when the Messenians came back to the Peloponnesus their luck in the Olympic games came with them. For at the festival celebrated by the Eleans in the year after the settlement of Messene , the foot-race for boys was won by this Damiscus, who afterwards won in the pentathlum both at Nemea and at the Isthmus.
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