[99] The text of Homer gives the name of Pharis.
[100] Il. ix. 150.
[101] Il. ii. 582.
[102] Thucydides, b. iv. ch. 2. The expedition was under the command of Eurymedon and Sophocles. Stratocles being at the time archon at Athens.
[103] Thucydides, b. iv. ch. 38. The number was 292.
[104] Strivali.
[105] According to Pausanias, Mothone, or Methone, was the Pedasus of Homer. It is the modern Modon.
[106] Cape Gallo. The Gulf of Messenia is now the Gulf of Coron.
[107] The name Thyrides, the little gates, is probably derived from the fable which placed the entrance of the infernal regions at Tænarum, Cape Matapan.
[108] For Cinæthium I read Cænepolis, as suggested by Falconer, and approved by Coray.