. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ion, thesecond inventor ofthe dithyramb, andthe Cyclic poets-Eson, Eumelus. andEumolpus, yet lite-rature was Ujt muchpatronized there. The wealth^ and licentiousness^ of the place were Euripides also speaks of it as the revered water, and describes it as theresort of the Corinthian elders who played at draughts there ; the foimtaiii towhich he refers is the northern one :— Hccrcrov? 77poae\6iov, evOa 8rj Tra/XatVepot QdcrcrovaL, cre/xvb; HeLpijvrjs vSujp. Med. 67. H IletpTjvas vSpevaofxd
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. ion, thesecond inventor ofthe dithyramb, andthe Cyclic poets-Eson, Eumelus. andEumolpus, yet lite-rature was Ujt muchpatronized there. The wealth^ and licentiousness^ of the place were Euripides also speaks of it as the revered water, and describes it as theresort of the Corinthian elders who played at draughts there ; the foimtaiii towhich he refers is the northern one :— Hccrcrov? 77poae\6iov, evOa 8rj Tra/XatVepot QdcrcrovaL, cre/xvb; HeLpijvrjs vSujp. Med. 67. H IletpTjvas vSpevaofxdva Up6a~o\os oiKTpa asfxi/oov, vSdriov. T/oad. 208. The fountain whence Pegasus was caught up by Bellerophon was probably theone on the Acrccorinthus. ^ Illusasciue auro vestes, Ephyreiaque cera.—Yieg. Georo. n. ; 9 Even in the Homeric age it was emphatically the wealthy Corinth :— Ac^retdv re Kdptr^ov, ei/KxtjaeVa? re KAecora?.—//. ii. 570.^ Hence the well known expression ov -airb? ai5pb? el? K6piv9oi eo-ru 6 Xon cuivls homini contingit adire Corinthum.—Hor. Ep. i. 17, 36. u 2. Coin of
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