[46] Is this a slip of Pausanias for Menelaus? See Iliad, xxiii. 587, 588.
[47] Only found as a fragment now.
[48] In Odyssey, xi. 623, he is simply called κύνα, in Iliad, viii. 368, κύνα στυγερoῦ Ἀΐδαο. And κύων has various senses.
[49] Herodotus, i. 23, 24.
[50] Iliad, ix. 292.
[51] Iliad, ix. 292.
[52] Our coif.
BOOK IV.—MESSENIA.
CHAPTER I.
The border of Messenia towards Laconia, as fixed by Augustus, is at Gerenia, and in our time is called the Chœrian dell. This country, originally without inhabitants, is described to have been inhabited by the first colonists in the following manner. After the death of Lelex, who reigned in what is now called Laconia, but was then called Lelegia after him, Myles who was the elder of his sons succeeded him, and Polycaon the younger was only a private person till he married the Argive Messene, the daughter of Triopas, the son of Phorbas. But Messene, being full of pride owing to her father, who was foremost of all the Greeks in merit and power, did not think it tolerable that her husband should be a private person. So they gathered together an army from Argos and Lacedæmon and invaded this country, and the whole district was called Messene from her. And several other cities were built, as well as the place where the royal headquarters were established, viz. Andania. Before the battle which the Thebans fought with the Lacedæmonians at Leuctra, and the building of Messene in our day close to Ithome, I know of no city that was previously called Messene. My inference is very much confirmed by Homer. For in the catalogue of those who went to Ilium, when enumerating Pylos and Arene and other cities, he mentions no Messene. And in the Odyssey he shews that by this time the Messenians were a race and not a city,