172:(the modern Mostitsaiiko). The other stream rises in the district of Lusi, and falls into the Cleitor just beyond the remains of the ancient city. The Cleitor, after flowing rapidly through the plain, falls into the Aroanius, at the distance of seven stadia from the city of Cleitor, according to Pausanias; but the real distance is at least double. A little north of the junction of the river Cleitor with the Aroanius, the remains of a small
205:, Sous was besieged by the Cleitorians in a dry place with no water. He made an agreement with them that he would return to them all his conquests if him and all his men would be allowed water to drink. He then offered his entire kingdom to any of his soldiers who would resist drinking. When all of them drank, Soos himself refused to, and continued to wage war against the Cleitorians.
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wandered in their madness, are called the
Azanian Mountains. The Cleitorians were renowned among the Peloponnesians for their love of liberty (τὸ Κλειτορίων φιλελεύθερον καὶ γενναῖον), of which an instance is cited even from the mythical times, in the brave resistance they offered to
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Cleitor among the Arcadian towns destroyed in his time, or of which scarcely any traces existed; but this is not correct, since it was not only in existence in the time of Pausanias, but it continued to coin money as late as the reign of
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Aroanius, the upper valley of the Ladon also formed part of the territory of Cleitor. The Ladon rose in this district, and flowed through the southern part of it in a southwesterly direction. The road from
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188:. The Cleitoria formed an important part of the Azanian district. The Cleitorian fountain, described below, was regarded as one of the curiosities of Azania; and the Aroanian Mountains, on the summits of which the daughters of
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Pheneatic Aroanius. Pliny improperly identifies them with the exocoetus or adonis, which was a sea-fish. The ποικιλία was probably trout, and was so called from its spotted and many-coloured scales.
157:, which was distant 30 stadia from Psophis, and was the boundary between the Cleitorii and Psophidii. This forest, in the time of Pausanias, contained bears and wild boars. Paus is also mentioned by
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places it in the territory of Lusi, because it is said to have been situated upon the confines of the
Cleitoria, and is mentioned in connection with the purification of the daughters of Proetus by
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