in Ancient Geography, a town of Elis; its ruins to be seen on the road from Olympia to Elis, (Pau- tanias); situated between the mouths of the Peneus and Selles, near Mount Scollis, (Strabo). Built by Pylas of Megara, and destroyed by Hercules, (Pau tanias). Another Pylus in Triphylia, (Strabo); by which the Alpheus runs, (Pau tanias); on the confines of Arcadia, and not in Arcadia itself, (id.).—A third in Messenia, (Strabo, Ptolemy); situated at the foot of Mount Ægeaeus on the sea-coast, over-against the island Sphacela or Sphacteria; built by Pylas, and settled by a colony of Leleges from Megara; but thence expelled by Ne leus and the Pelagi, and therefore called Nelea, (Hom er). A sandy territory. The royal residence of Ne leus, and of Neleus his son: the more ancient and more excellent Pylus; whence the proverb Pylus ante Py lum, (Ariftophanes, Plutarch), used when we want to re press the arrogance and pride of any one: said to be afterwards called Coryphaeum. 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 Ne leus, (Strabo).