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and the river Ismenus. Besides these, there are in Bceotia 

 the Fountains of CEdipodia, Psamathe, Dirce, Epicraue, 

 Arethusa, Hippocrene\ Aganippe, and Gargaphie ; and, be- 

 sides the moimiains already mentioned, Mycalesos,Hadylius, 

 and Acontius, The remaining to\\Tis between Megara and 

 Thebes are Eleutherse'^ Haliartus^ PlatseEe"*, Pherae, Asple- 

 don^_ Hyle^ Thisbe^ Erythraj^ Glissas^ and Cop^e^"; near 

 the river Cephisus, Larymna and Anchoa^^ ; as also Medeon, 

 Phlygone, Acrsephia^% Coronea^^, and Chaeronea^"*. Again, 



Megai'is and Attica. The forest abounded in game, and the vicinity was 

 a favourite scene of the poetic legends. Paleovuni is the highest summit 

 of the Hehconian range. Leake fixes the Grove of the ]\Iuses at the 

 present chm'ch of Saint Nicholas, at the foot of Momit Marandali, one 

 of the summits of Hehcon. 



^ These fountains or sprmgs are veiy difficult to identify, but Hippo- 

 crene, or the " Horse-Spring " (said to have been produced by Pegasus 

 striking the ground with his feet), was probably at the present Maka- 

 riotissa ; wliile Aganippe is the fountam that flows midway between 

 Paleo-panagliia and Pyrgaki. 



2 Tliis place was originally a member of the Boeotian confederacy, but 

 joined the Athenians, though it did not become an Attic Demus. Leake 

 thuiks that its ruins are those seen at Myupoh. Ross tliinks that it 

 stood to the east of Ghyfto-kastro, while other writers are of opinion that 

 it stood more to the west, near the modem village of Kundara. 



^ Razed to the ground by the Roman praetor Lucretius, for having 

 espoused the cause of king Perseus. Its remains are seen about a mile 

 from the village of ]\Iazi, on the road from Thebes to Lebada^a. 



^ Memorable for the defeat of the Persians under Mardonius, B.C. 479. 



^ Distant twenty stadia from Orcbomenus. Leake places it at the 

 modem Izamah, Forchhammer at Avro-Kastro. 



*• Its site is micertaiii. Leake supposes it to be at Paleokastro, between 

 the north end of Lake Hylica and the foot of INIount Palea. Uh-iehs places 

 it at the south end of the lake. ^ The modern Kakosia occupies its site. 



s At the foot of Mount Cithseron. Leake places it eastward of Kat- 

 zula, at the foot of the rocks there. 



" Leake identifies it with the ruins on tlie torrent of Plataniki, below 

 the mountain of Siamata. Pausanias says it was situate seven stadia 

 beyond Teumessus, and at the foot of Hypatus, now Siamata. 



^" On Lake Copais. The modem village of TopoUa occupies its site. 



^' The waters of the Cephisus here bui*st forth from their subterra- 

 neous channel. 



*2 On Lake Copais. Its ruins are at a short distance to the south o. 

 the modem Kardliitza. 



13 South of ]\Iount Helicon. Its principal remains are those of its 

 theatre, a temple of Hera, and the agora or market-place. 



^■^ On the borders of Phocis j famous for the battles for.glit in its 



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