It is probably the same town as mentioned by Strabo under the corrupt form Cinaedium or Kinaidion (Κιναίδιον).
[5][6] Some ancient remains and inscriptions of the time of the Antonines and their successors have been found here.
On the door-posts of a small ruined church are two inscribed quadrangular στῆλαι, decorated with mouldings above and below.
One of the inscriptions is a decree of the Taenarians, and the other is by the community of the Eleuthero-Lacones (τὸ κοινὸν τῶν Ἐλευθερολακώνων).
We have the testimony of Pausanias that Caenepolis was one of the Eleuthero-Laconian cities;[7] and it would appear from the above-mentioned inscription that the maritime Laconians, when they were delivered from the Spartan yoke, formed a confederation and founded as their capital a city in the neighbourhood of the revered sanctuary of Poseidon.