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pliitt'^ nattjeal histoet. 
[Book IT. 
Steria\ and Erauron^, once towns, tlie borough of Eham- 
nus^, the place where Marathon^ stood, the Thriasian^ plain, 
the town of Melite^, and Oropus^ upon the confines of 
Boeotia. 
CHAP. 12. BGEOTIA, 
In this country are Anthedon^, Onchestus^, the free town 
of Thespise^^, Lebadea^\ and then Thebes surnamed 
Boeotian which does not yield the palm to Athens even in 
celebrity ; the native land, according to the common notion, 
of the two Divinities Liber and Hercules. The birth-place 
of the Muses too is pointed out in the grove of Helicon. 
To this same Thebes also belong the forest of Cithseron^'^, 
on the east coast to the north of Thoricus. Its harbour was probably 
the modern DhaskaHo ; and the town is placed by Leake at the ruuis called 
Paleokastro, to the south of the village of Dardheza. 
^ On the east coast, between Prasise and Brauron. 
2 One of the twelve ancient cities of Cecrops, on the eastern coast. 
Its name is supposed to be preserved in those of the villages Vraona and 
Paleo Yraona. 
3 A Demus belonging to the tribe Mantis. It was famous for its temple 
of Nemesis, the goddess of retribution. The present Obrio Castro 
occupies its site. 
^ Memorable for the defeat of the Persians by the Athenians, B.C. 490. 
The site of the ancient town of Marathon is thought not to have been at 
the modern village of Marathon, but a place called Vrana, to the south 
of it. 
^ The eastern part of the Eleusinian plain was thus called, from the 
Demus of Thria. Its exact site is uncertain. 
^ Mehte was a Demus of the tribe Cecropis, of Athens, west of the 
Inner Cer amicus. 
7 Now Oropo, on the eastern frontiers of Boeotia and Attica, near the 
Euripus. It originally belonged to the Boeotians. 
^ Its ruins are supposed to be those seen eight miles from Egripo. 
Lukisi has also been suggested. 
9 Its ruins are still to be seen on the S.W. slope of Mount Faga. 
1^ On the S.E. slope of Mount Hehcon. Its ruins are. to be seen at 
the modern Eremo or Rimokastro, 
1^ Now Livadhia. Ttie celebrated cave of Trophonius stood in its 
vicinity. 
^2 Extensive remains of it are still to be seen ; but the modern town 
of Theba or Stiva stands only on the site of its ancient Oadmea or citadel. 
^3 To distinguish it from places of the same name in Egypt, Phthiotis, 
and Lucania. 
1* On the range of mountains of that name separating Boeotia from 
