Traces of the ancient settlement of the Olenii are to be seen between Patræ and Dyme: there also is the famous temple of Æsculapius, distant from Dyme 40, and from Patræ 80 stadia.
In Eubœa there is a place of the same name with the Ægæ here, and there is a town of the name of Olenus in Ætolia, of which there remain only vestiges.
The poet does not mention the Olenus in Achaia, nor many other people living near Ægialus, but speaks in general terms;
“along the whole of Ægialus, and about the spacious Helice.”[248]
But he mentions the Ætolian Olenus in these words;
“those who occupied Pleuron and Olenus.”[249]
He mentions both the places of the name of Ægæ; the Achæan Ægæ in these terms,
“who bring presents to Helice, and to Ægæ.”[250]
But when he says,
“Ægæ, where his palace is in the depths of the sea,