Messenia

Traveling alone, each member of the Crypteia would inevitably cross the Taygetos [mountain] range and slip into Messenia.

Besides these mistakes, he says that Nabis started on his return from Messenia by the gate on the road to Tegea.

This unexpected resistance so frightened the Helots, that they hastily withdrew into Messenia.

In like manner there were πεδια Ηλυσια in Egypt, Messenia, and in the remoter parts of Iberia.

That moonbeam falling on the letters had raised Messenia before him, and its struggle against the Spartan oppression.

Cresphontes wished to have the fertile Messenia, and induced his brother to acquiesce in a trick which secured it to him.