[3] It had ceased to be a member of the Achaean League in the time of Polybius, who mentions Leontium in its place.
[4] Rhypes, however, continued to exist down to the time of Augustus; but this emperor destroyed the city and transferred its inhabitants to Patrae, and its territory (Ῥυπίς, or ἡ Ῥυπική) was divided between Aegium and Pharae.
[5] Its ruins were seen by Pausanias, in the 2nd century, at a short distance from the main road from Aegium to Patrae.
[6] We learn from Strabo that this town was mentioned by Aeschylus as κεραυνίας Ῥύπας, or "Rhypes stricken by the thunderbolt."
[7] In the territory of Rhypes there was a suburb called Leuctrum (Λεῦκτρον),[7] and also a seaport named Erineum (Ἐρινεόν or Ἐρινεὸς λιμήν) which is mentioned by Thucydides,[8] and which is described by Pausanias as 60 stadia from Aegium.