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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Messenia, chapter 31 (search)
h leads thence into the interior of Messenia is the city of the Thuriatae, which they say had the name Antheia in Homer's poems.Hom. Il. 9.151, 293. Augustus gave Thuria into the possession of the Lacedaemonians of Sparta. For when Augustus was emperor of the Romans, Antony, himself a Roman, made war upon him and was joined by theLacedaemonians were on the side of Augustus. For this reason Augustus punished the Messenians and the rest of his adversaries, some more, some less. The people of Thuria left their town, which lay originally on high ground, and came down to live in the plain. Nevertheless the upper town is not entirely deserted, but there are remallage Calamae and a place Limnae, where is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis （Of the lake）. They say that Teleclus king of Sparta met his end here. On the road from Thuria towards Arcadia are the springs of the Pamisus, at which little children find cures.A road turns to the left from the springs, and after some forty stades is the