Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 36. § 6).It is almost certain that the fortress erectedby the Athenians stood on the site of the ruins of afortress of the middle ages, called Paleo-Avarino,which has been changed into Navarino by the habitof using the accusative case, «is rhv ASaptvov, andby attaching the final v of the article to the sub-stantive. The distances of 400 stadia from Spartaand 100 stadia from Methone, given respectively byThucydides and Pausanias, are the correct distancesof Old Navarino from those two ancient sites.(Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 191.) Sphacteria (2(/>a/f
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 36. § 6).It is almost certain that the fortress erectedby the Athenians stood on the site of the ruins of afortress of the middle ages, called Paleo-Avarino,which has been changed into Navarino by the habitof using the accusative case, «is rhv ASaptvov, andby attaching the final v of the article to the sub-stantive. The distances of 400 stadia from Spartaand 100 stadia from Methone, given respectively byThucydides and Pausanias, are the correct distancesof Old Navarino from those two ancient sites.(Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 191.) Sphacteria (2(/>a/f-TTjpio) is now called Sphayia, a name which italso bore in antiquity. (S^ayia, Strab. viii. p. 359 ;Plat. Menex. p. 242; al ^(payiai, Xen. Hell. vi. 2.§ 31; tres Sphagiae, Plin. iv. 12. s. 25.) The fol-lowing description will be rendered clearer by the accompanying maps, of which the former con-tains the whole locality, and the latter the fortress ofOld Navartno and its immediate neighbourhood ona larger scale. IYLUS. C83. JIAI- Oh XHK BAY OF PYLUS. A. S|iliactpria (Sp/ineia). B. Pylus on the promontorj- Coryphasium {OldNa- vartno). C. The modern Navarino. I) D. Bay ol Pylus {Bay of Navarino). The chief discrepancy between the account ofThucydides and the existing state of the coast isfound in the width of the two entrances into thebay of Navarino, the northern entrance being about150 yards wide, and the southern not less than be-tween 1300 and 1400 yards; whereas Thucydidesstates the former admitted only two triremes abreast,and the latter only eight or nine. Therefore not onlyis the actual width of the two entrances very muchgreater than is stated by Thucydides, but this widthis not in the proportion of the number of triremes;they are not as 8 or 9 to 2, but as 17 to 2. To ex-jilain this difficulty Col. Leake supposes that Thu-cydides was misinformid respecting the breadth ofthe entrances to the harijour. But to this a satis-factory reply is given by Dr. Arnold,
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