Passage 8.34.6
ἡ δὲ Κρωμῖτις ἀνωτέρω τοῦ Ἀλφειοῦ σταδίους ὡς τεσσαράκοντά ἐστι, καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ πόλεως Κρώμων οὐ παντάπασι τὰ ἐρείπια ἦν ἐξίτηλα. ἐκ δὲ Κρώμων ὡς εἴκοσι στάδιά ἐστιν ἐπὶ Νυμφάδα· καταρρεῖται δὲ ὕδατι καὶ δένδρων ἀνάπλεώς ἐστιν ἡ Νυμφάς. καὶ ἀπʼ αὐτῆς στάδια εἴκοσί ἐστιν ἐπὶ τὸ Ἑρμαῖον, ἐς ὃ Μεσσηνίοις καὶ Μεγαλοπολίταις εἰσὶν ὅροι· πεποίηνται δὲ αὐτόθι καὶ Ἑρμῆν ἐπὶ στήλῃ.
Cromitis lies about forty stades from the Alpheios, and in this area the ruins of the city Cromi were still not altogether erased. From Cromi it is about twenty stades to Nymphas, a place flowing with water and dense with trees. About twenty stades from Nymphas lies the Hermaion, which marks the boundary between the Messenians and the Megalopolitans; here they have set up an image of Hermes upon a pillar.