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ELEFSIS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
or Eleusin (Eleusis, Eleusin). An ancient city of Boeotia, which
stood, according to tradition, near Copae and the Lake Copais, and was, together
with another ancient city, named Athenae, inundated by the waters of that lake.
Stephanus of Byzantium reports that when Crates drained the waters which had overspread
the plains the city of Athenae became visible.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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