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114 PATRA.
Afterwards, Patreus son of Preugenes surrounded it with walls,
and gave it his name. It was also called Aroe Patrensis and Patrai.
It is called Patra by the modern Greeks ; Balia Badra {ttuKukx,
Uxt^oc) and Badradschik by the Turks ; Patrasso by the Italians; and
Patras by the English and French.
Strabo1 calls it iroXig u%io\oyog; and Pausanias gives it the title of
aa-Tu as well as sroXig. It stands on a gentle eminence, not a mile from
the sea, and within three miles of Mount Boidia, the ancient Pana-
chaikos,2 which rises to its east. This mountain is of a considerable
height, and forms the extremity of the chain which terminates at
Sicyon, and which diverging in different branches assumes various
appellations. A large part of it is covered with forests of great age,
and almost impenetrable density; containing many varieties of the
oak and fir. The side facing Patra is divided into green knolls and
fertile glens. Near the middle of it is the road to Arcadia, through
a narrow and wooded pass, called the Makeleria, or Butchery, from
the frequent murders committed there some years ago, by a powerful
band of robbers; who taking refuge in the forests and caverns of the
mountain, set the government at defiance. This road has accordingfey
been almost abandoned, and the more circuitous, but safer way by
the gulph, is generally preferred. This is probably the way taken
by the iEtolian army, when it penetrated to Messenia,3 through the
Patrajan, Pharsean, and Tritaean territories. According to Proco-
pius,4 Patrai and Naupaktos, and many other places in Greece, were
destroyed by an earthquake, about the middle of the sixth century.
Patra enjoys an extensive view in all directions, except towards
the mountain, which stretches out one of its branches towards the
territories of Dyme, Pharai, and the Araxian promontory; beyond
which Zakunthos is seen towards the south-west. More to the north
are distinguished the islands of Cephallenia, Ithaca, the Echinades,
and the Acarnanian and iEtolian shores, with the entrance of
1 B. 8. p. 387. - Polyb. b. 5. p. 377. 3 Pohyb. b.
* De Bello Goth. b. 4. p. 639. edit, of Paris.
Afterwards, Patreus son of Preugenes surrounded it with walls,
and gave it his name. It was also called Aroe Patrensis and Patrai.
It is called Patra by the modern Greeks ; Balia Badra {ttuKukx,
Uxt^oc) and Badradschik by the Turks ; Patrasso by the Italians; and
Patras by the English and French.
Strabo1 calls it iroXig u%io\oyog; and Pausanias gives it the title of
aa-Tu as well as sroXig. It stands on a gentle eminence, not a mile from
the sea, and within three miles of Mount Boidia, the ancient Pana-
chaikos,2 which rises to its east. This mountain is of a considerable
height, and forms the extremity of the chain which terminates at
Sicyon, and which diverging in different branches assumes various
appellations. A large part of it is covered with forests of great age,
and almost impenetrable density; containing many varieties of the
oak and fir. The side facing Patra is divided into green knolls and
fertile glens. Near the middle of it is the road to Arcadia, through
a narrow and wooded pass, called the Makeleria, or Butchery, from
the frequent murders committed there some years ago, by a powerful
band of robbers; who taking refuge in the forests and caverns of the
mountain, set the government at defiance. This road has accordingfey
been almost abandoned, and the more circuitous, but safer way by
the gulph, is generally preferred. This is probably the way taken
by the iEtolian army, when it penetrated to Messenia,3 through the
Patrajan, Pharsean, and Tritaean territories. According to Proco-
pius,4 Patrai and Naupaktos, and many other places in Greece, were
destroyed by an earthquake, about the middle of the sixth century.
Patra enjoys an extensive view in all directions, except towards
the mountain, which stretches out one of its branches towards the
territories of Dyme, Pharai, and the Araxian promontory; beyond
which Zakunthos is seen towards the south-west. More to the north
are distinguished the islands of Cephallenia, Ithaca, the Echinades,
and the Acarnanian and iEtolian shores, with the entrance of
1 B. 8. p. 387. - Polyb. b. 5. p. 377. 3 Pohyb. b.
* De Bello Goth. b. 4. p. 639. edit, of Paris.