Alesiaeum
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Alesiaeum or Alesiaion (), also called Aleisium or Aleision () by Homer and Alesium or Alesion () by Stephanus of Byzantium, was a town of Pisatis in ancient Elis, situated upon the road leading across the mountains from Elis to Olympia. It appears in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad.
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Alesiaeum or Alesiaion (), also called Aleisium or Aleision () by Homer and Alesium or Alesion () by Stephanus of Byzantium, was a town of Pisatis in ancient Elis, situated upon the road leading across the mountains from Elis to Olympia. It appears in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad.
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