[354] That is, by natural or artificial subterraneous channels.
[355] Mauroneri.
[356] Pliny, b. xvi. c. 36.
[357] Il. ii. 503.
[358] There were several rivers of this name. See below, c. iii. § 16.
[359] Il. ii. 523.
[360] See below, ch. iii. § 15. Elateia is represented by the modern village of Elefta.
[361] See ch. ii. § 26.
[362] It is impossible to make any exact statement respecting its extent, since it varied so much at different times of the year and in different seasons. On the northern and eastern sides its extent is limited by a range of heights, but on the opposite quarter there is no such natural boundary to its size. Smith, v. Bœotia, which contains also a useful map from Forschamer’s Hellenica of the Basin of the Copais.
[363] There appears to be no modern lake in the position assigned to Trephea by Kiepert. Kramer suggests the omission here of the word Trephea.