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[2] μετὰ δὲ Ταίναρον πλέοντι ἐπὶ τὴν Ὄνου γνάθον καὶ Μαλέας Ψαμαθοῦς ἐστι πόλις: εἶτ᾽ Ἀσίνη καὶ Γύθειον τὸ τῆς Σπάρτης ἐπίνειον ἐν διακοσίοις καὶ τετταράκοντα σταδίοις ἱδρυμένον: ἔχει δ᾽, ὥς φασι, τὸ ναύσταθμον ὀρυκτόν: εἶθ᾽ ὁ Εὐρώτας ἐκδίδωσι μεταξὺ Γυθείου καὶ Ἀκραίων. τέως μὲν οὖν ὁ πλοῦς ἐστι παρ᾽ αἰγιαλὸν ὅσον διακοσίων καὶ τετταράκοντα σταδίων: εἶθ᾽ ἑλῶδες ὑπέρκειται χωρίον καὶ κώμη Ἕλος: πρότερον δ᾽ ἦν πόλις, καθάπερ καὶ Ὅμηρός φησιν “ οἵ τ᾽ ἄρ᾽ Ἀμύκλας εἶχον Ἕλος τ᾽ ἔφαλον πτολίεθρον
”1κτίσμα δ᾽ Ἑλίου φασὶ τοῦ Περσέως. ἔστι δὲ καὶ πεδίον καλούμενον Λεύκη: εἶτα πόλις ἐπὶ χερρονήσου ἱδρυμένη Κυπαρισσία λιμένα ἔχουσα: εἶτα ἡ Ὄνου γνάθος λιμένα ἔχουσα: εἶτα Βοία πόλις, εἶτα Μαλέαι: στάδιοι δ᾽ εἰς αὐτὰς ἀπὸ τῆς Ὄνου γνάθου πεντήκοντα καὶ ἑκατόν: ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ἀσωπὸς πόλις ἐν τῇ Λακωνικῇ.
Strabo. ed. A. Meineke, Geographica. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.
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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, GYTHELON or Gythion, Lakonia, Greece.
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