Œchălia

, a country of Peloponnesus in Laconia, with a small town of the same name. This town was destroyed by Hercules, while Eurytus was king over it, from which circumstance it was often called Eurytopolis .――A small town of Eubœa, where, according to some, Eurytus reigned, and not in Peloponnesus. Strabo , bks. 8, 9, & 10.— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 8 , li. 291 .— Ovid , Heroides , poem 9; Metamorphoses , bk. 9 , li. 136 .— Sophocles , Trachiniæ , li. 74 & Scholia .