in *Ancient Geography*, a town of Elis; its ruins to be seen on the road from Olympia to Elis, (Pausanias); situated between the mouths of the Peneus and Selles, near Mount Scollis, (Strabo). Built by Pylas of Megara, and destroyed by Hercules, (Pausanias). Another Pylus in Triphylia, (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 Egeletes 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 Nereus and the Pelasgi, and therefore called Nereia, (Homer.) A sandy territory. The royal residence of Nereus, 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 repress 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 *Pyli* were subject to Nestor, (Strabo).