Note 591 — Chapter LIII · EIGHTH YEAR OF THE WAR.
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Thucyd. iv, 56. He states that Thyrea was ten stadia, or about a mile and one-fifth, distant from the sea. But Colonel Leake (Travels in the Morea, vol. ii, ch. xxii, p. 492), who has discovered quite sufficient ruins to identify the spot, affirms “that it is at least three times that distance from the sea.”
This explains to us the more clearly why the Æginetans thought it necessary to build their new fort.