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LASSION (Ancient city) ILIA
The chief town of the mountainous district of Acroreia in Elis proper,
was situated upon the frontiers of Arcadia near Psophis. Curtius places it with
great probability in the upper valley of the Ladon, at the Paleokastro of Kumani,
on the road from the Eleian Pylos and Ephyra to Psophis. Lasion was a frequent
object of dispute between the Arcadians and Eleians, both of whom laid claim to
it. In the war which the Spartans carried on against Elis at the close of the
Peloponnesian War, Pausanias, king of Sparta, took Lasion (Diod. xiv. 17). The
invasion of Pausanias is not mentioned by Xenophon in his account of this war;
but the latter author relates that, by the treaty of peace concluded between Elis
and Sparta in B.C. 400, the Eleians were obliged to give up Lasion, in consequence
of its being claimed by the Arcadians. (Xen. Hell. iii. 2. 30) In B.C. 366 the
Eleians attempted to recover Lasion from the Arcadians; they took the town by
surprise, but were shortly afterwards driven out of it again by the Arcadians.
(Xen. Hell. vii. 4. 13, seq.; Diod. xv. 77.) In B.C. 219 Lasion was again a fortress
of Elis, but upon the capture of Psophis by Philip, the Eleian garrison at Lasion
straightway deserted the place. (Polyb. iv. 72, 73.) Polybius mentions (v. 102)
along with Lasion a fortress called Pyrgos, which he places in a district named
Perippia.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
FOLOE (Mountain) ILIA
A mountain forming the boundary between Arcadia and Elis; mentioned as one of the abodes of the Centaurs.
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