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Myrtuntium

Myrtuntium (Murtountion), called Myrsinus in Homer. A town of the Epeans in Elis, on the road from Elis to Dyme.

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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Myrtuntium

  Murtountion, called Myrsinus (Mursinos) by Homer, who mentions it among the towns of the Epeii. It was a town of Elis, and is described by Strabo as situated on the road from the city of Elis to Dyme in Achaia, at the distance of 70 stadia from the former place and near the sea. Leake remarks that the last part of the description must be incorrect, since no part of the road from Elis to Dyme could have passed by the sea; but Curtius observes that Myrtuntium would at one time have been near the sea-coast, supposing that the lagoon of Kotiki was originally a gulf of the sea. The ruin near Kalotikos probably represents this place.

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

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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