Greek Texts & Translations

asserted that their country was never ravaged at any period, he says, that at one time it was inhabited by Aetolians, who had expelled the Barbarians; that at another time, Aetolus, together with the Epeii from Elis, inhabited it; [that Aetolus was overthrown by the Epeii,] and these again by Alcmaeon and Diomedes.

I now return to the Phocians. 13

Immediately on the sea-coast, next after Anticyra, ^note and behind ^note it, is the small city Marathus; then a promontory, Pharygium, which has a shelter for vessels; then the harbour at the farthest end, called Mychus, ^note from the accident of its situation between Helicon ^note and Ascra.

Nor is Abae, ^note the seat of an oracle, far from these places, nor Ambrysus, ^note nor Medeon, of the same name as a city in Boeotia.

In the inland parts, next after Delphi, towards the east is Daulis, ^note a small town, where, it is said, Tereus, the Thracian, was prince; and there they say is the scene of the fable of Philomela and Procne; Thucydides lays it there; but other writers refer it to Megara. The name of the place is derived from the thickets there, for they call thickets Dauli. Homer calls it Daulis, but subsequent writers Daulia, and the words they who occupied Cyparissus, ^note
are understood in a double sense; some persons supposing it to have its name from the tree of the country, but others from a village situated below the Lycoreian territory. 14

Panopeus, the present Phanoteus, the country of Epeius, is on the confines of the district of Lebadeia. Here the fable places the abode of Tityus. But Homer says, that the Phaeacians conducted Rhadamanthus to Euboea, in order to see Tityus, son of the earth; ^note
Od. vii. 324.