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ASSOPOS (Ancient city) LACONIA
By the sea is a city Asopus, sixty stades distant from Acriae. In it is a temple of the Roman emperors, and about twelve stades inland from the city is a sanctuary of Asclepius. They call the god Philolaus, and the bones in the gymnasium, which they worship, are human, although of superhuman size. On the citadel is also a sanctuary of Athena, surnamed Cyparissia (Cypress Goddess ). At the foot of the citadel are the ruins of a city called the City of the Paracyparissian Achaeans. There is also in this district a sanctuary of Asclepius, about fifty stades from Asopus the place where the sanctuary is they name Hyperteleatum.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited Apr 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
City of Free Laconians.
YPERTELEATON (Ancient sanctuary) ASSOPOS
Place in Laconia.
KYPARISSIA (Ancient city) ASSOPOS
And one comes also to a plain called Leuce; then to a city Cyparissia, which is situated on a peninsula and has a harbor; then to Onugnathus, which has a harbor.
KOTYRTA (Ancient city) ASSOPOS
Accordingly they now allowed the Athenians to ravage their seaboard,
without making any movement, the garrisons in whose neighbourhood the descents
were made always thinking their numbers insufficient, and sharing the general
feeling. A single garrison which ventured to resist, near Cotyrta and Aphrodisia,
struck terror by its charge into the scattered mob of light troops, but retreated,
upon being received by the heavy infantry, with the loss of a few men and some
arms, for which the Athenians set up a trophy.
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