Strabo Geography 8.4.4

[4] Adjacent to Methone ¹ is Acritas, ² which is the beginning of the Messenian Gulf. But this is also called the Asinaean Gulf, from Asine, which is the first town on the gulf and bears the same name as the Hermionic town. ³ Asine, then, is the beginning of the gulf on the west, while the beginning on the east is formed by a place called Thyrides, ⁴ which borders on that part of the Laconia of today which is near Cynaethius and Taenarum. ⁵ Between Asine and Thyrides, beginning at Thyrides, one comes to Oetylus (by some called Baetylus ⁶ ); then to Leuctrum, a colony of the Leuctri in Boeotia; then to Cardamyle, which is situated on a rock fortified by nature; then to Pherae, ⁷ which borders on Thuria and Gerena, the place from which Nestor got his epithet “Gerenian,” it is said, because his life was saved there, as I have said before. ⁸ In Gerenia is to be seen a temple of Triccaean Asclepius, a reproduction of the one in the Thessalian Tricca. It is said that Pelops, after he had given his sister Niobe in marriage to Amphion, founded Leuctrum, Charadra, and Thalami (now called Boeoti), bringing with him certain colonists from Boeotia. Near Pherae is the mouth of the Nedon River; it flows through Laconia and is a different river from the Neda. It ⁹ has a notable temple of Athena Nedusia. In Poeäessa, ¹⁰ also, there is a temple of Athena Nedusia, named after some place called Nedon, from which Teleclus is said to have colonized Poeäessa and Echeiae ¹¹ and Tragium.