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 (4) Scillus, a town of Triphylia, a district of Elis. In B.C. 572 the
    Eleians had razed Pisa and Scillus to the ground. But between B.C.
    392 and 387 the Lacedaemonians, having previously (B.C. 400,
    "Hell." III. ii. 30) compelled the Eleians to renounce their
    supremacy over their dependent cities, colonised Scillus and
    eventually gave it to Xenophon, then an exile from Athens.
    Xenophon resided here from fifteen to twenty years, but was, it is
    said, expelled from it by the Eleians soon after the battle of
    Leuctra, in B.C. 371.—"Dict. Geog. (s.v.)" The site of the place,
    and of Xenophon's temple, is supposed to be in the neighbourhood
    of the modern village of Chrestena, or possibly nearer Mazi. To
    reach Olympia, about 2 1/2 miles distant, one must cross the
    Alpheus.

Here with the sacred money he built an altar and a temple, and ever after, year by year, tithed the fruits of the land in their season and did sacrifice to the goddess, while all the citizens and