ELISHAH, the son of Javan. Elishah is believed to have peopled Elis in the Peloponnesus. We find there the Province of Elis, and a Country called Alisium by Homer. Ezekiel speaks of the purple of Elishah, which was brought to Tyre, and sold there. Now there was abundance of that sort of fish, which is used in dying purple, caught at the mouth of the Eurotas, and the Ancients speak frequently of the purple of Laconia. This kind of fish was caught likewise in the gulf of Corinth.
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