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Therefore Stesichorus composed his recantation. In Therapne I remember seeing the fountain Messeis. Some of the Lacedaemonians, however, have declared that of old the name Messeis was given, not to the fountain at Therapne, but to the one we call Polydeucea. The fountain Polydeucea and a sanctuary of Polydeuces are on the right of the road to Therapne.

Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.

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    • Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), 6.457
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    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MESSE´IS
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SPARTA
    • Smith's Bio, DIOSCU'RI
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