BOOK IV. VII. 24-27 



and Lycabettus ; the place called Ilissus ; the 

 promontories of Capo Colonna, 45 miles from Piraeus, 

 and Thoricos ; the former towns of Potamos, Steria 

 and Brauron, the village of llhamnus, the place called 

 Marathon, the Thriasian Plain, the town of Mehta, 

 and llopo on the border of Boeotia. 



To Boeotia belong Anthedon, Onchestus, the free North-east 

 town of Thespiae, Livadhia, and Thcbes, surnamed ^^*|^-'^ 

 Boeotian,<» which does not yield even to Athens in 

 celebrity, and which is reputed to be the native phice 

 of two deities, Liber and Hercules. The Muses also 

 are assigned a birth-place in the grove of Hehcon. 

 To this city of Thebes also are attributed the forest 

 of Cithaeron and the river Ismenus. Besides these 

 Boeotia contains the Springs of Oedipus and those of 

 Psamathe, Dirce, Epicrane, Arethusa, Hippocrene, 

 Aganippe and Gargapliie ; and in addition to the 

 mountains previously meniioned, Mycalesus, Hadyhus 

 and Acontius. The remaining towns between the 

 Megarid and Thebes are Eleutherae, HaHartus, 

 Plataea, Pherae, Aspledon, Hyle, Thisbe, Erythrae, 

 GHssa, Copae, Lamiae and Anicliiae on the river 

 Cephisus, Medeon, Phlygone, Acraephia, Coronea 

 and Chaeronea. On the coast below Thebes are 

 Ocalee, Heleon, Scolos, Sclioenos, Peteon, Hyrie, 

 Mycalesos, Ireseum, Pteleon, Olyarum, Tanagra 

 Free State, and right in the channel of the Euripus, 

 formed by the island of Euboea Iving opposite, Auh's 

 famous for its spacious harbour. The Boeotians had 

 the name of Hyantes in earlier days. Then come the 

 Locri surnamed Epicnemidii,* and formerly called 

 Leleges, through whose territory the river Cephisus 

 flows dowTi to the sea ; and the towns of Opus, which 

 gives its name to the Opuntian Bay,<^ and Cynus, 



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