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Aleisium is the present Alesiaeum, a territory in the neighborhood
of Amphidolis, in which the people of the surrounding country hold a monthly market.
It is situated on the mountain road that runs from Elis to Olympia. In earlier
times it was a city of Pisatis, for the boundaries have varied at different times
on account of the change of rulers. The poet also calls Aleisium "Hill of Aleisium,"
when he says:"until we caused our horses to set foot on Buprasium, rich in wheat,
and on the Olenian Rock, and of Aleisium where is the place called Hill". (we
must interpret the words as a case of hyperbaton, that is, as equivalent to "and
where is the place called Hill of Aleisium"). Some writers point also to a river
Aleisius.
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