Passage 4.31.1
ὀλίγον δὲ ἀπωτέρω Φαρῶν Ἀπόλλωνος ἄλσος ἐστὶ Καρνείου καὶ ὕδατος ἐν αὐτῷ πηγή· θαλάσσης δὲ ἕξ που στάδια ἀπέχουσιν αἱ Φαραί. ἐντεῦθεν πρὸς μεσόγαιαν τῆς Μεσσηνίας σταδίους προελθόντι ὀγδοήκοντα, ἔστιν ἡ Θουριατῶν πόλις, Ἄνθειαν δὲ αὐτὴν ἐν τοῖς ἔπεσιν ὠνομάσθαι τοῖς Ὁμήρου λέγουσι· Λακεδαιμονίοις δὲ ἔχειν τοῖς ἐν Σπάρτῃ τὴν Θουρίαν ἔδωκεν Αὔγουστος. Αὐγούστῳ γὰρ βασιλεύοντι Ῥωμαίων ἐπολέμησεν Ἀντώνιος, γένει καὶ οὗτος Ῥωμαῖος· καί οἱ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι ἄλλοι τε καὶ οἱ Μεσσήνιοι προσέθεντο, ὅτι ἐφρόνουν Λακεδαιμόνιοι τὰ Αὐγούστου.
A little beyond Pharae is a grove sacred to Apollo Carneius, containing a spring of water. Pharae itself lies approximately six stades distant from the sea. Proceeding inland from here toward the interior of Messenia for about eighty stades, there is the city of the Thuriatae, which, they say, Homer called Antheia in his verses. Augustus granted Thuria to the Lacedaemonians of Sparta. For Antonius, also of Roman descent, had waged war against Augustus, who was Emperor of the Romans; and the Messenians, along with other Greeks, sided with Antonius, while the Lacedaemonians favored Augustus.