TITHOREA. 275 
Delphi, and Tithorea, on different sides of chap. 
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the mountain, were the halting-places of those . 
passing over Parnassus^ at the distance of ^o^j-o^*'''^ 
eighty stadia from each other - ; beinsr situate as '''"'i '*=" 
•^ '' o gard to 
the towns of ^oste in Piedmont, and Martinacli ^^"'i''"'- 
in the Vallais, are with regard to Mount 
St. Bernard in the Alps. The distance was some- 
what greater to those who travelled by the 
carriage road^ The guides who accompanied 
us from Arracovia, on the Delphic side, to the 
summit of Parnassus, had proposed to descend 
during the same day to Velitza; but from the 
length of time we spent in our passage, we had 
only been able to reach the Monastery of the 
Virgin of Jerusalem. The whole district on 
Parnassus towards the south was Delphic; 
and Pauscmias relates, that all the country on 
the northern side was called Tithorea. " As to 
the name of the city/' says he% "I know that 
Herodotus, in that part of his history in which 
he gives an account of the irruption of the 
(1) 'I'ovri AIA TOT HAPNASSOT. Pfiuian. lib. X. c. 32. p. 878. Ed. 
Kuhn. 
(2) Ibid. 
(3) T?)v Ss oh To-tra. o3!/v«y, aWot, ata) I'^rtfLa.att inrniiiat, tXioiui in 
ixiytro ilva; (rToiioit. Pausan. ibid. p. 878. 
(4) Vid. Paiisnn. ibid. fJps. 1696; et p. 672. ed. Xylandri, flanov, 
1613. 
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