[207] Caphyae was on a small plain, which was subject to inundations from the lake of Orchomenus; the ditches here mentioned appear to be those dug to drain this district. They were in the time of Pausanias superseded by a high dyke, from the inner side of which ran the River Tragus (Tara). Pausan. 8, 23, 2.
[208] The Olympiads being counted from the summer solstice, these events occurring before midsummer of B.C. 220 belong to the 139th Olympiad. The 140th begins with midsummer B.C. 220.
[209] But outside the natural borders of Arcadia. Mod. Kalávryta.
[210] By the diolcos which had been formed for the purpose. Strabo, 8, 2. Ships had been dragged across the Isthmus on various occasions from early times. See Thucyd. 3, 15.
[211] Reading, μόνου. See ch. 13.
[212] A mountain on the frontier, on the pass over which the roads to Tegea and Argos converge.
[213] A town of Phthiotis in Thessaly. See Book 25, [3].
[214] See ch. 15.
[215] See ch. 24.
[216] See Stobaeus Floril. 58, 9, who gives three more lines.