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Bordering on the Phocian territory is a land named after Bulon, the leader of the colony, which was founded by a union of emigrants from the cities in ancient Doris. The Bulians are said of Philomelus and the Phocians...the general assembly. To Bulis from
Here a torrent falls into the sea, called by the natives Heracleius. Bulis lies on high ground, and it is passed by travellers crossing by sea from Anticyra to Lechaeum in Corinthian territory. More than half its inhabitants are fishers of the shell-fish that gives the purple dye. The buildings in Bulis are not very wonderful; among them is a sanctuary of Artemis and one of Dionysus. The images are made of wood, but we were unable to judge who was the artist. The god worshipped most by the Bulians is named by them the Greatest, a surname, I should think, of Zeus. At Bulis there is a spring called Saunium.
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The length of the road from
The plain from
, note and similarly in the hymn to Apollo, note calls the city by its ancient name of
So the Amphictyons determined to make war on the Cirrhaeans, put Cleisthenes, tyrant of
You will not take and throw down the tower of this city,
So Solon induced them to consecrate to the god the territory of
Until on my precinct shall dash the wave
Of blue-eyed Amphitrite, roaring over the winedark sea.
Solon invented another trick to outwit the Cirrhaeans. The water of the river Pleistus ran along a channel to the city, and Solon diverted it in another direction. When the Cirrhaeans still held out against the besiegers, drinking well-water and rain-water, Solon threw into the Pleistus roots of hellebore, and when he perceived that water held enough of the drug he diverted it back again into its channel. The Cirrhaeans drank without stint of the water, and those on the wall, seized with obstinate diarrhoea, deserted their posts,
10.37.8and the Amphictyons captured the city. They exacted punishment from the Cirrhaeans on behalf of the god, and
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The territory of the Locrians called Ozolian adjoins
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