[217] Cf. ch. 74.
[218] The hero of the second Messenian war, B.C. 685-668 (Pausan. 4, 14-24). The story told by Pausanias, who also quotes these verses, is that Aristocrates, king of the Arcadians, twice played the traitor to Aristomenes, the Messenian champion: once at the battle of the Great Trench, and again when Aristomenes renewed the war after his escape from the Pits at Sparta; and that on the second occasion his own people stoned him to death, and set up this pillar in the sacred enclosure of Zeus on Mount Lycaeus.
[219] But Pausanias represents the pillar as put up by the Arcadians, not the Messenians (4, 22, 7).
[220] The text is uncertain here.
[221] Reading with Hultsch, τὰ καλὰ.
[222] However cogent may be the reasons for his prophecy adduced by Polybius, there are no signs of its being fulfilled. Indeed, the bank at the mouth of the Danube, which he mentions, has long disappeared. The fact seems to be that he failed to take into calculation the constant rush of water out of the Euxine, which is sufficient to carry off any amount of alluvial deposit.
[223] Xenophon, Hellen. 1, 1, 22.
[224] Or Tylis, according to Stephanos Byz., who says it was near the Haemus. Perhaps the modern Kilios.
[225] Seleucus II. (Callinicus), B.C. 246-226. Seleucus III. (Ceraunus), B.C. 226-223. Antiochus the Great (son of Callinicus), B.C. 223-187.
[226] Of Seleucus Callinicus.