Note 734 — Chapter VII · FIRST AND SECOND MESSENIAN WARS.

See Pausan. iv. 6-14.

An elaborate discussion is to be seen in Manso’s Sparta, on the authorities whom Pausanias has followed in his History of the Messenian Wars, 18^te Beilage, tom. ii. p. 264.

“It would evidently be folly (he observes, p. 270), to suppose that in the history of the Messenian wars, as Pausanias lays them before us, we possess the true history of these events.”