“ PATRAS (Gr. Patrai) , the chief fortified seaport town on the west coast of Greece, and chief town of the province of Achaea and Elis, on a gulf of the same name, 70 m. W.N.W. of Corinth. There are two railway stations, one in the north-east on the line to Athens (via Corinth) , the other on the line to Pyrgos. Pop. (1889) , 33,529; (1907) , 37,401. It has been rebuilt since 1821 (the War of Independence) , and is the seat of a Greek archbishop and' an appeal court. It is the chief port of Greece, from which the great bulk of its currants are dispatched. ”

“ The whole armed force was destroyed by Meteilus after the defeat of the Achaeans at Scarpheia, and many of the remaining inhabitants forsook the city; but after the battle of Actium Augustus restored the ancient name Aroe, introduced a military colony of veterans from the 10th and 12th legions (not, as is usually said, the 22nd) , and bestowed the rights of coloni on the inhabitants of Rhypae and Dyme, and all the Locri Ozolae except those of Amphissa. ”