Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

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does not appear that they have as yet been sufficiently examined.
Cleonae may be found by observing that the mountain with a re-
markable summit or table land, which is perhaps that anciently
called Apesas, bears N. 30 W. and the Acrocorinthos N. 65 E. from
the spot uncorrected.

CLEONjE TO TRETUM AND NEMjEA.

There are two roads from Cleonae to Argos, one is shorter, and
used by people on foot. The other by Tretum is also rough, being
carried through mountains, but a wheeled carriage passes without
difficulty. Pausanias. Corinthiaca, 51. Tretum was so called,
because there were several caves in the mountain, as the name imports.
Diodorns Sicuhs. Book 5.

In the mountains near Tretum, the cave of the Nemean Hon is yet
shewn, from which Nemea is not more than fifteen stadia distant.
Pausanias. There was a forest in very ancient times round the den
of the lion. Theocritus, &c.

At 15 minutes from Cleonae is a Khan, called Kortesa, with a
chapel and a fountain ; a path turns off right to Nemea. At 45 mi-
nutes the road crosses a large bridge over a river, which runs at the
foot of the mountains on the left. The road then arrives, after a
gentle descent, at the Derveni, mentioned in the tout from Nemaea to
Mycenae.