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In this country are Anthedon [Note], Onchestus [Note], the free town of Thespiæ [Note], Lebadea [Note], and then Thebes [Note], surnamed Bœotian [Note], which does not yield the palm to Athens even in celebrity; the native land, according to the common notion, of the two Divinities Liber and Hercules. The birth-place of the Muses too is pointed out in the grove of Helicon. To this same Thebes also belong the forest of Cithæron [Note],
and the river Ismenus. Besides these, there are in Bœotia the Fountains of Œdipodia, Psamathe, Dirce, Epicrane, Arethusa, Hippocrene [Note], Aganippe, and Gargaphie; and, besides the mountains already mentioned, Mycalesos, Hadylius, and Acontius. The remaining towns between Megara and Thebes are Eleutheræ [Note], Haliartus [Note], Platææ [Note], Pheræ, Aspledon [Note], Hyle [Note], Thisbe [Note], Erythræ [Note], Glissas [Note], and Copæ [Note]; near the river Cephisus, Larymna and Anchoa [Note]; as also Medeon, Phlygone, Acræphia [Note], Coronea [Note], and Chæronea [Note]. Again,
on the coast and below Thebes, are Ocalea [Note], Heleon, Scolos, Schœnos [Note], Peteon [Note], Hyriæ [Note], Mycalesos [Note], Iresion, Pteleon, Olyros, and Tanagra [Note], the people of which are free; and, situate upon the very mouth of the Euripus [Note], a strait formed by the opposite island of Eubœa, Aulis [Note], so famous for its capacious harbour. The Bœotians formerly had the name of Hyantes.
After them come the Locrians, surnamed Epicnemidii [Note], formerly called Leleges, through whose country the river Cephisus passes, in its course to the sea. Their towns are Opus [Note]; from which the Opuntian Gulf [Note] takes its name, and Cynos. Daphnus [Note] is the only town of Phocis situate on the coast. In the interior of Locris is Elatea [Note], and on the banks of the Cephisus, as we have previously stated [Note], Lilæa, and, facing Delphi, Cnemis [Note] and Hyampolis [Note]. Again, upon
the coast of the Locrians, are Larymna [Note], and Thronium [Note], near which last the river Boagrius enters the sea. Also, the towns of Narycion, Alope [Note], and Scarphia [Note]; and then the gulf which receives the name of the Maliac [Note] from the people who dwell there, and upon which are the towns of Halcyone, Econia, and Phalara [Note].
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