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608 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *p, entry *pu/los
   Pylos, a town and district of Triphylia in Peloponnesus, where Nestor ruled, Hom. Two towns of the same name, in Elis and Messenia, are often confounded with Triphylian Pylos. (23.04)

2. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter N
   Neleus thus became king of Pylos, which town he found in existence when he arrived there; but some state that he himself built Pylos, or at least that he erected the royal palace there (Paus. (21.31)

3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter E
   ) Stephanus also speaks of an Ephyra between Pylos and Elis, Pylos being the town at the junction of the Ladon and the Peneius. (20.24)

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