Passage 3.22.6
ἀπὸ θαλάσσης δὲ ἄνω Γερόνθραι σταδίους ἀπέχουσιν εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατὸν Ἀκριῶν. ταύτας οἰκουμένας πρὶν Ἡρακλείδας ἐλθεῖν ἐς Πελοπόννησον, ἐποίησαν ἀναστάτους Δωριεῖς οἱ Λακεδαίμονα ἔχοντες, ἀναστήσαντες δὲ Γερονθρῶν τοὺς Ἀχαιοὺς παρὰ σφῶν ἐποίκους ἀπέστειλαν· ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ δὲ Ἐλευθερολακώνων καὶ οὗτοι μοῖρα ἦσαν. κατὰ μὲν δὴ τὴν ἐξ Ἀκριῶν ἐς Γερόνθρας ὁδὸν ἔστι Παλαιὰ καλουμένη κώμη, ἐν δὲ αὐταῖς Γερόνθραις Ἄρεως ναὸς καὶ ἄλσος·
From the sea, Geronthrai lies one hundred and twenty stades inland from Acriae. These Acriae, inhabited before the Heracleidae came into the Peloponnesus, were desolated by the Dorians who held Lacedaemon. After expelling the Achaeans from Geronthrai, the Dorians sent settlers of their own there. In my day, these too belonged to the Eleuthero-Laconians. On the road that goes from Acriae to Geronthrai is a village called Palaea ("the Old"). In Geronthrai itself there is a temple and a precinct sacred to Ares.