This view, towards a hill, must be the one refered to by Wace in this passage: ""The village Palaia mentioned by Pausanias as being on the way from Akriai to Geronthrai, is conjectured to be the same as the town Pleiai referred to by Livy as a strategic point covering both Akriai and the plain of Leukai. This description suits the proposed site for Palaia at Apidia, where there are many ruined Byzantine churches and, on a hill to the south of the village, a small and ruined mediaeval fort". Wace, A. J. B., & Hasluck, F. W. (1908). Laconia: II. Topography. The Annual of the British School at Athens, 15, 158–176, p. 162.