. Travels in northern Greece. art of the Amphilochia, and thatArgos was in some part of that plain. It wouldseem, therefore, that Hecatseus was misinformed asto the course of the Inachus and the situation ofArgos, and that Strabo had not a knowledge ofthe country sufficient to correct the historian. Asto the verses of Sophocles, their weight, as a geo-graphical testimony, is much diminished by theirforming part of a passage in which the poet repre- 1 lvaypv he rbv lid rfjc 2 Thucyd. I. 2, c. 68. 80 ;\wpaQ piovra eig rbv 1. 3, C. 105. Polyb. 1. 22,Kokwov.—Strabo, p. 326. c. 13. Liv.
. Travels in northern Greece. art of the Amphilochia, and thatArgos was in some part of that plain. It wouldseem, therefore, that Hecatseus was misinformed asto the course of the Inachus and the situation ofArgos, and that Strabo had not a knowledge ofthe country sufficient to correct the historian. Asto the verses of Sophocles, their weight, as a geo-graphical testimony, is much diminished by theirforming part of a passage in which the poet repre- 1 lvaypv he rbv lid rfjc 2 Thucyd. I. 2, c. 68. 80 ;\wpaQ piovra eig rbv 1. 3, C. 105. Polyb. 1. 22,Kokwov.—Strabo, p. 326. c. 13. Liv. 1. 38, c. 10. VOL. IV. R -242 AMPHILOCflTA. [chap. sented the Inachus, after flowing to the Achelous,as then crossing the sea, and re-appearing in Lyr-ceia of Argolis, an acknowledged fable, justlycompared by Strabo to that of the Alpheius flow-ing to the fountain Arethusa at Syracuse, to that ofthe Nile flowing to the Inopus of Delus, and to thatof the origin of the Sicyonian Asopus in Phrygia . Pale6pyrgo (Idomene minor.). Sp Spnrloncmt Geographic miles. The strongest objection to Neokhori as the siteof Argos is, that Thucydides describes Argos as amaritime city2, which, it must be admitted, better 1 Strabo, p. 271. 2 ApyetW tt6\e<jJ£ iTridaXaererlac oixttjq.—Thucyd. 1. 3. C. 15. XXXVIII.] AMPHTLOCIIIA. 243 suits the remains at Kervasara, the only place be-sides Neokhori near the eastern shore of the gulf,where any remains are found deserving the cha-racter of a polis,—all the others in this quarterbeing those of fortresses or of comse. At Kervasarathere are not only the fortifications of a largetown, but they stand so near the sea as to an-swer perfectly to the description of , however, is considerably more thantwenty-two Roman miles from Arta : there is noriver corresponding to the Inachus, and the posi-tion seems exactly to accord with the descriptionof LimncBa, as lying on the confines of the countryof the Agrcei, and as being the
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