Pausanias Analysis

There are others who are also Arkadians by race, and these are called the Kynaithaians; they dedicated at Olympia a statue of Zeus, holding a thunderbolt in each hand. These Kynaithaians dwell about forty stades further than Lousoi; in their agora are altars of the gods, and also a statue of the emperor Hadrian.

The most notable thing there connected with Dionysus is a sanctuary, and they hold a festival in the season of winter. During this, men, having been smeared with fat, lift up a bull from the herd—whichever one the god himself guides them to choose—and carry it to the temple. Such is their established sacrifice. At the same place there is a spring of cold water, about two stades distant from the city, and above it grows a plane tree.

And whoever has been seized by madness from the bite of a rabid dog, or who otherwise meets with such danger, drinking the water of this spring brings healing. This is why they call the spring Alyssos ("Curative against madness"). Thus it would appear that among the Arcadians, the water near Pheneos, called Styx, was discovered for man's misfortune, whereas the spring at Kynaitha, being beneficial, serves as an antidote to that evil.

From Pheneus, among the roads which lead towards the west, the one on the left remains. This road indeed leads to Cleitor and passes by the place where Heracles performed the deed of creating a channel for the river Aroanius. From there the road descends to a place called Lykouria, and Lykouria serves as the boundary between the territory of the Pheneates and that of the Cleitorians.