(anc. geog.), a town of Elia; its ruins to be seen on the road from Olympia to Elis, (Pausanias); situated between the mouths of the Peneus and Seleucus, near Mount Scollis, (Strabo). Built by Pylas of Megara, and destroyed by Hercules, (Pausanias). — Another Pylus in Triphyllia, (Strabo); by which the Alpheus runs, (Pausanias); on the confines of Arcadia, and not in Arcadia itself, (id.) — A third in Messenia, (Strabo, Ptolemy); situated at the foot of Mount Egeaeus on the sea-coast, over-against the island Sphacteria or Sphacteria; built by Pylas, and settled by a colony of Leleges from Megara; but thence expelled by Neleus and the Pelagi, and therefore called Nelea (Homer). A sandy territory. The royal residence of Neleus, and of Nestor his son; the more ancient and more excellent Pylus; whence the proverb Pylus ante Pylum, (Aristophanes, Plutarch), used when we want to refer the arrogance and pride of any one: said to be afterwards called Coryphostrum. It made a figure in the Peloponnesian war; for being rebuilt by the Athenians, it proved of great benefit to them for the space of 15 years, and of much annoyance to the Lacedemonians, (Thucydides). All the three Pylis were subject to Nestor, (Strabo).