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Next to Ætolia are the Locri [Note], surnamed Ozolæ; a people exempt from tribute. Here is the town of Œanthe [Note], the port [Note] of Apollo Phæstius, and the Gulf of Crissa [Note]. In the interior are the towns of Argyna, Eupalia [Note], Phæstum, and Calamisus. Beyond are the Cirrhaean plains of Phocis, the town of Cirrha [Note], and the port of Chalæon [Note], seven miles
from which, in the interior, is situate the free town of Delphi [Note], at the foot of Mount Parnassus [Note], and having the most celebrated oracle of Apollo throughout the whole world. There is the Fountain too of Castalia [Note], and the river Cephisus [Note] which flows past Delphi, rising in the former city of Lilæa [Note]. Besides these, there is the town of Crissa [Note] and that of Anticyra [Note], with the Bulenses [Note]; as also Naulochum [Note], Pyrrha, Amphissa [Note], exempt from all tribute, Tithrone, Tritea [Note], Ambrysus [Note], and Drymæa [Note], which district has also the name of Daulis. The extremity of the gulf washes one corner of Bœotia, with its towns of Siphæ [Note] and Thebes [Note], surnamed the Corsian, in the
vicinity of Helicon [Note]. The third town of Bœotia on this sea is that of Pagæ [Note], from which point the Isthmus of the Peloponnesus projects in the form of a neck.
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