THE DESCRIPTION OF GREECE.

BOOK V.

PRIOR ELIACS.

CHAP. I.

SUCH of the Greeks as divide the Peloponnese into five parts only acknowledge that it is necessary for the Eleans and Arcadians to belong to that part possessed by the Arcadians; that the second must be assigned to the Achaians; and that the three remaining parts must be distributed among the Dorians.

However, the nations that dwell in the Peloponnese are the native Arcadians and Achaians. Of these, the Achaians were expelled from their country by the Dorians, yet they were not driven beyond the Peloponnese. The Ionians, after they were expelled, inhabited that part of Greece which was formerly called Ægialus?—The word Ægialus is struck through in the original.—but is now named after the Achaians. The Arcadians, however, have possessed their own lands from the beginning to the present day, but the other parts have been inhabited by strangers. For the Corinthians of the present day are the most recent of all those who dwell in...