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[Book ly. 
on the coast and below Thebes, are Ocalea\ Heleon, Scolos, 
Schoenos^, Peteon^, Hyriae^, Myealesos^, Iresion, Pteleon, 
Olyros, and Tanagra^, the people of which are free ; and, 
situate upon the very mouth of the Euripus^, a strait formed 
by the opposite island of Euboea, Aulis^, so famous for its 
capacious harbour. The Boeotians formerly had the name 
of Hy antes. 
After them come the Locrians, surnamed Epicnemidii^, 
formerly called Leleges, through whose country the river 
Cephisus passes, in its course to the sea. Their towns are 
Opus^^ ; from which the Opuntian Grulf takes its name, and 
Cynos. Daphnus^^ is the only town of Phocis situate on the 
coast. In the interior of Locris is Elatea^^, and on the 
banks of the Cephisus, as we have previously stated^"^, Lilsea, 
and, facing Delphi, Cnemis^^ and Hyampolis^^ Again, upon 
vicinity between the Athenians and Boeotians, B.C. 447, and between 
Philip of Macedon and the Athenians and Boeotians, B.C. 338, and that 
in wliich Sylla defeated the generals of Mithridates B.C. 86. It stood on 
the site of the modem village of Kapurna. 
1 On the river Copais, at the foot of Mount Tilphusion. 
2 On the river of that name, and on the road from Thebes to Anthedon. 
3 Its site appears to be unknown. 
^ Enumerated by Homer with Aulis. Ancient critics have, without 
sufficient reason, identified it with Hysise. 
5 It was sacked by the Athenians, B.C. 413, and in ruins in the time 
of Pausanias. 
6 The modern Grrimadha or Grrimala occupies its site. 
7 The modern channel of Egripo. 
s The place where the Grrecian fleet assembled when about to sail for 
Troy. Leake says that its harbour is now caUed Yathy, evidently ffoni 
the Grreek paOvs^ "wide." 
9 So called from dwelling near Mount Cnemis. 
10 Its ruins are to be seen three miles from the modern Talanti. 
11 Now the Golfo di Talanti. 
12 On the Euboean Sea, wliich here extended to the Corinthian Grulf. 
It was in ruins in the time of Strabo. Cynus was the chief sea-port 
of the Locri Opuntii. Its site is marked by a tower called Palaeopyrgo, 
and some ruins to the south of the village of Livanates. 
13 The modern village of Lefti stands on its site, and there are some 
ruins to be seen. 
1-* In 0. iv. of this Book. 
15 Or Cnemides, a fortress built on the range of Mount Cnemis, near 
the modern Nikoraki. 
1*^ Ravaged by Pliilip of Macedon, Its ruins are near the modern vil- 
lage of Yogdhani, 
