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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 1, chapter 5 (search)
. The longest of them is a day's journey. The city got its name, they say, from its founder Lepreus the son of Pyrgeus. There was also a story that Lepreus contended with Heracles: that he was as good a trencherman. Each killed an ox at the same time and prepared it for the table. It turned out, even as Lepreus maintained, that he was as powerful a trencherman as Heracles. Afterwards he made bold to challenge him to a duel. Lepreus, they say, lost, was killed, and was buried in the land of Phigaleia. The Phigalians, however, could not show a tomb of Lepreus. I have heard some who maintained that Lepreus was founded by Leprea, the daughter of Pyrgeus. Others say that the first dwellers in the land were afflicted with the disease leprosy,Not our leprosy, but a whitish, rough, scaly, skin-disease, possibly our psoriasis. See Galen 14.758. and that the city received its name from the misfortune of the inhabitants. The Lepreans told me that in their city once was a temple of Zeus Leucaeus
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Arcadia, chapter 42 (search)
s learned in traditions.They say that they named her Black because the goddess had black apparel. They cannot relate either who made this wooden image or how it caught fire. But the old image was destroyed, and the Phigalians gave the goddess no fresh image, while they neglected for the most part her festivals and sacrifices, until the barrenness fell on the land. Then they went as suppliants to the Pythian priestess and received this response:— Azanian Arcadians, acorn-eaters, who dwellIn Phigaleia, the cave that hid Deo, who bare a horse,You have come to learn a cure for grievous famine,Who alone have twice been nomads, alone have twice lived on wild fruits.It was Deo who made you cease from pasturing, Deo who made you pasture againAfter being binders of corn and eatersWith the reading a)nastofa/gous “made you pasture again, and to be non-eaters of cakes, after being binders of corn.” of cakes,Because she was deprived of privileges and ancient honors given by men of former times.And<