All the Messenians, who were captured about Eira or anywhere else in Messenia , were reduced by the Lacedaemonians to serfdom. The people of Pylos and Mothone and all who occupied the maritime district retired in ships on the capture of Eira to Cyllene, the port of the Eleians. Thence they sent to the Messenians in Arcadia , proposing to unite their forces and seek a new country to dwell in, enjoining Aristomenes to lead them to a colony.
Description of Greece. Pausanias. W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1918-1935.
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