[738] This omphalus was near the Plutonian cavern. Diodorus. l. 5.
Τρις δ' επι καλλιστης νησου δραμες ομφαλον Εννης.
Callimachus: Hymn to Ceres. Cicero in Verrem, 4. c. 48.
[739] Homer. Odyss. l. α. v. 50.
[740] Stephanus Byzantinus. The natives were also styled Pyrrhidæ; and the country Chaonia from the temple Cha-On, οικος ἡλιου.
[741] Pindar. Olymp. Ode 7.
[742] Strabo. l. 8. p. 542.
[743] By Livy called Aliphira. l. 32. c. 5.
In Messenia was a city Amphia—Πολισμα επι λοφου ὑψηλου κειμενον. Pausan. l. 4. p. 292. The country was called Amphia.
[744] Αλφειονιας Αρτεμιδος, η Αλφειουσης αλσος. Strabo. l. 8. p. 528.