286 FROM TITHOREA, 
CHAP, little elevated, towards the east, upon the other 
VIII. . m 
^ ,- ■ side of this river. The distance to Tithorea is 
nearly the same ; and the tradition of the 
Tithoreans, that this was Thebes, and that it was 
destroyed by an inundation from their torrent 
Cachales, is silly enough ; as the inundation, if it 
ever proved destructive of a city here, must 
have proceeded from the Cephissus. This 
river, flowing to Screpu (Orchomenus), is 
here denominated, by the natives, SindaUu. 
Possibly the ruins here may have been those of 
Lcdon. Ledon, a city abandoned in the time of Pausa- 
nias ' ; who says, that the people to whom it 
belonged did not reside among the ruins of 
their city, but near to them. It has been usual 
to suppose that Turco-Chorio stands upon the 
siaU.i. site of Elatea*^; to which there seems to be 
no objection, as it stood in the plain watered by 
the Cephissus, and was near to Amphiclea, 
where Dadi now stands. The gentle rise of the 
plain, from the river towards the walls of the 
city, is moreover distinctly mentioned by Pau- 
sanias\ and it is a characteristical feature of the 
(1) Lib. X. c. 33, p. 881. cd. Kuhnii. 
(2) See D'Anville, *' Antient Geography," vol. I. p. 212. /-onrf. 
1791, &c. 
(3) Kcci auSii ti/K irr) ■ttoX-j aidyrris h iyyurdru toZ 'EXa!rl<{a» ictriti;. 
Pausanim Phocica, cap. 34. p. 885. ed. Kuhnii. 
