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KOLONIDES (Ancient city) EPIA
Colonides, Kolonides. A town in the SW. of Messenia, described by Pausanias as
standing upon a height at a short distance from the sea, and 40 stadia from Asine.
The inhabitants affirmed that they were not Messenians, but a colony led from
Athens by Colaenus. It is mentioned by Plutarch (Philop. 18) under the name of
Colonis (Kolonis) as a place which Philopoemen marched to relieve; but according
to the narrative of Livy (xxxix. 49) Corone was the place towards which Philopoemen
marched. The site of Colonides is uncertain. Leake places it upon the Messenian
gulf at Kastelia, where are some remains of ancient buildings, N. of Koroni, the
site of Asine; but the French commission suppose it to have stood on the bay of
Phoenicus, NW. of the promontory Acritas.
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
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