[246] Later on the assemblies were held at the different cities in turn. See 23, [17]; 24, [10], etc.
[247] Νεοκρῆτες, cf. cc. 65, 79. Livy (37, 40) transcribes the word Neocretes. It is uncertain what the exact meaning of the word is. It seems most reasonable to suppose that, like Tarentini, it had ceased to be an ethnical term, and meant mercenary soldiers (νέοι) armed like Cretans, that is, as archers.
[248] The narrow channel between Leucas and the mainland, which had been artificially enlarged. Dionys Halic. 1, 50.
[252] The pun disappears in translation. The line is
ὁρᾷς τὸ δῖον οὗ βέλος διέπτατο.
[253] Games in his honour were celebrated at Sicyon. See Plutarch, Arat. 45. Cleomenes, 16. Supra, p. [147] n. Infra, 28, [19]; 30, [23].
[254] A memorial, apparently, of the fruitless expedition of Pyrrhus into Laconia in B.C. 272.