VI. 
224 C R I S S A. 
CHAP, (whose opinion was also adopted by D'Anville.) 
that Cirrha was the port, and Crissa the cily. It 
had given its name to a territory near the gulph 
of that name, called, by Strata, Ev^octf^ov, 
of *' The Happy r a distinction to which it was 
entitled, by its fertility, and by the peculiar 
beauty of its situation. The possession of great 
wealth rendered the Crissceans arrogant and 
unjust. They not only levied a tax upon all 
vessels frequenting their port, but at last de- 
manded contributions, considered as impious, 
from all those who passed through their terri- 
tory in pilgrimages to Delphi. In consequence 
of these extortions, the Council of the j4m- 
phictyons sent to consult the Oracle: and it was 
decreed, that Crissa should be destroyed, and 
its inhabitants reduced to slavery'-; and 
that their territory should be left unculti- 
vated, as a district sacred to j4poUo, to Diana. 
to Latona, and to Minerva. A war ensued in 
consequence, which lasted ten years; when, 
after a long and bloody siege, the town was 
taken and entirely rased, and all the survivors 
found within its walls were sold as slaves. 
Crissa is mentioned by Pliny \ but not by 
(1) '• Fons Castalias, arnnis Cephissus prasfluens Dflphos, orlus in 
Lilxa quondam urbe. Praterea oppidum Crissa," &c. Piinii IlLt. 
Xat. lib. IT. C.3. torn. J. ;>/>. 205, 20C. L. Snt. 1635. 
