298 FROM TITHOREA, 
CHAP. Acropolis; resembling the works already de- 
V— V ' scribed at Tithorea and Dadi. Some have 
phy'ofTiie supposed that Bodonitza was Opus : but this 
diaTlZ" cannot be true, because Opus, capital of a 
"'"• southern district of Locris bearing its name, 
could not therefore belong to the Locri Epicne- 
midii. Its situation in the midst of a defile of 
Mount CEta, leading to Thermopyhe, and not 
upon the coast, although at no great distance 
from it, is so remarkable, that in the descrip- 
tion given by antient writers of the cities of the 
Locri, something applicable to its characteristic 
position and appearance might be expected. 
\Ve have already proved that it could not have 
been Opus; but there is great probability that 
Thronium. it was Thronium ; and the appearance of the 
citadel will add strength to this opinion. First 
it should be observed, that Thronium is men- 
tioned by Ptolemy as having a mediterranean 
situation ; and Strabo makes the same observa- 
tion concerning it '. But it was not far from the 
coast ; because Polybius, after speaking of the 
conference held with Philip in Locris, upon the 
(1) Metoj OS i'l'xori (rrao'iov; kto Kv/jfi.idi; Xt/x.yiv, imp ou KtTrxi ra 
0g«v;4» Iv ffraoioi; re's iiroi; xctTO, r/iv /aroyaiat' iii' I (ioaypn; tfarafi.!; 
iKhtiuftv, i *apappiuv to Opivin, May>iv S' l^aye/aii^dvfiii alroV "(rri Sf 
Xiifiifpou;, X, r. A. Slrabon. Geog. lib. ix. pp. 617, (jIS. ed. Ox»n. 
