Cur. Potosi et Plata, urbes in tam tenui intervallo, utraque mont osa, &c. 3068.

I now am lodging at the rus- In-urbe of young Decius Mus.

If any man from Mount Taygetus should view the country round about, and see tot delicias, tot urbes per Peloponesum dispersas, so many delicate and brave built cities with such cost and exquisite cunning, so neatly set out in Peloponnesus, he should perceive them now ruinous and overthrown, burnt, waste, desolate, and laid level with the ground.