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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Messenia, chapter 34 (search)
rks of the Aous, which flows through Thesprotia, are not river beasts but migrants from the sea. Corone is a city to the right of the Pamisus, on the sea-coast under Mount Mathia. On this road is a plhe breadth of the tree gives the impression of a small cave; from it the drinking water flows to Corone. The old name of Corone was Aepeia, but when the Messenians were restored to Peloponnese by the Corone was Aepeia, but when the Messenians were restored to Peloponnese by the Thebans, it is said that Epimelides, who was sent as founder, named it Coroneia after his native town in Boeotia. The Messenians got the name wrong from the start, and the mistake which they made grad. I do not know why they call the harbor “the harbor of the Achaeans.” Some eighty stades beyond Corone is a sanctuary of Apollo on the coast, venerated because it is very ancient according to Messeniatue of Apollo Argeotas, said to have been dedicated by the Argonauts, is of bronze. The city of Corone is adjoined by Colonides. The inhabitants say that they are not Messenians but settlers from Att