ἑξῆς γὰρ ἐν τῇ παραλίᾳ μετὰ τὴν Ἀντικύραν πολίχνιόν ἐστιν Ὀπισθομάραθος· εἶτʼ ἄκρα Φαρύγιον ἔχουσα ὕφορμον· εἶθʼ ὁ λιμὴν ὕστατος ὁ προσαγορευθεὶς μυχὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ συμβεβηκότος, ὑπὸ τῷ Ἑλικῶνι καὶ τῇ Ἄσκρῃ κείμενος. οὐδʼ αἱ Ἀβαὶ δὲ τὸ μαντεῖον ἄπωθεν τῶν τόπων τούτων ἐστίν, οὐδʼ ἡ Ἄμβρυσος, δεὼν ὁμώνυμος τῇ Βοιωτιακῇ. ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ μετὰ Δελφοὺς ὡς πρὸς τὴν ἕω Δαυλὶς πολίχνιον, ὅπου Τηρέα τὸν Θρᾷκά φασι δυναστεῦσαι· καὶ τὰ περὶ Φιλομήλαν καὶ Πρόκνην ἐκεῖ μυθεύουσι. τοὔνομα δὲ τῷ τόπῳ γεγονέναι ἀπὸ τοῦ δάσους· δαυλοὺς γὰρ καλοῦσι τὰ δάση. Ὅμηρος μὲν οὖν Δαυλίδα εἶπεν, οἱ δʼ ὕστερον Δαυλίαν. καὶ τὸ Κυπάρισσον ἔχον δέχονται διττῶς, οἱ μὲν ὁμωνύμως τῷ φυτῷ οἱ δὲ παρωνύμως κώμην ὑπὸ τῇ Λυκωρείᾳ.
Immediately on the sea-coast, next after Anticyra, and behind 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, from the accident of its situation between Helicon and Ascra.
Nor is Abae, the seat of an oracle, far from these places, nor Ambrysus, nor Medeon, of the same name as a city in Boeotia.
In the inland parts, next after Delphi, towards the east is Daulis, 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, / 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.
Πανοπεὺς δʼ ὁ νῦν Φανοτεύς, ὅμορος τοῖς περὶ Λεβάδειαν τόποις, ἡ τοῦ Ἐπειοῦ πατρίς. καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν Τιτυὸν δὲ ἐνταῦθα μυθεύουσιν. Ὅμηρος δέ φησιν ὅτι οἱ Φαίηκες τὸν Ῥαδάμανθυν εἰς Εὔβοιαν ἤγαγον, ὀψόμενον Τιτυὸν γαιήϊον υἱόν. καὶ Ἐλάριόν τι σπήλαιον ἀπὸ τῆς Τιτυοῦ μητρὸς Ἐλάρας δείκνυται κατὰ τὴν νῆσον καὶ ἡρῷον τοῦ Τιτυοῦ καὶ τιμαί τινες. πλησίον δὲ Λεβαδείας καὶ ἡ Τραχίν, ὁμώνυμος τῇ Οἰταίᾳ, Φωκικὴ πολίχνη· οἱ δʼ ἐνοικοῦντες Τραχίνιοι λέγονται.
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; / they show also in the island a cave called Elarium, from Elara the mother of Tityus, and an Heroum of Tityus, and some kind of honours are spoken of, which are paid to him.
Near Lebadeia is Trachin, having the same name as that in Oetae; it is a small Phocian town. The inhabitants are called Trachinii.
ἡ δʼ Ἀνεμώρεια ὠνόμασται ἀπὸ τοῦ συμβαίνοντος πάθους· καταιγίζει γὰρ εἰς αὐτὴν ὁ καλούμενος Κατοπτήριος χῶρος, κρημνός τις ἀπὸ τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ διήκων· ὅριον δʼ ἦν ὁ τόπος οὗτος Δελφῶν τε καὶ Φωκέων, ἡνίκα ἀπέστησαν τοὺς Δελφοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ κοινοῦ συστήματος τῶν Φωκέων Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ ἐπέτρεψαν καθʼ αὑτοὺς πολιτεύεσθαι· τινὲς δὲ Ἀνεμώλειαν καλοῦσιν. εἶθʼ Ὑάμπολις (Ὕα μετὰ ταῦτα ἐκλήθη ὑπό τινων), εἰς ἣν ἐκ Βοιωτίας ἐκπεσεῖν ἔφαμεν τοὺς Ὕαντας· ἔστι δʼ ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ μάλιστα καὶ αὕτη, πλησίον τῶν Παραποταμίων, ἑτέρα οὖσα τῆς ἐν τῷ Παρνασσῷ Ὑαμπεί, καὶ Ἐλάτεια ἡ μεγίστη πόλις τῶν Φωκικῶν, ἣν Ὅμηρος μὲν οὐκ οἶδε (νεωτέρα γάρ ἐστι τῆς ἡλικίας ἐκείνου), ἐπικαιρίως δʼ ἵδρυται πρὸς τὰς ἐκ τῆς Θετταλίας εἰσβολάς. δηλοῖ δὲ τὴν εὐφυΐαν ταύτην καὶ Δημοσθένης, φράζων τὸν θόρυβον τὸν γενηθέντα Ἀθήνησιν αἰφνιδίως, ἐπειδὴ ἧκέ τις ἀπαγγέλλων ὡς τοὺς πρυτάνεις ὡς Ἐλάτεια κατείληπται.
Anemoreia has its name from a physical accident, to which it is liable. It is exposed to violent gusts of wind from a place called Catopterius, a precipitous mountain, extending from Parnassus. It was a boundary between Delphi and the Phocians, when the Lacedaemonians made the Delphians separate themselves from the common body of the Phocians, and permitted them to form an independent state.
Some call the place Anemoleia; it was afterwards called by others Hyampolis, (and also Hya,) whither we said the Hyintes were banished from Boeotia. It is situated quite in the interior, near Parapotamii, and is a different place from Hyampea on Parnassus.
Elateia is the largest of the Phocian cities, but Homer was not acquainted with it, for it is later than his times. It is conveniently situated to repel incursions on the side of Thessaly. Demosthenes points out the advantage of its position, in speaking of the confusion which suddenly arose, when a messenger arrived to inform the Prytaneis of the capture of Elateia.
Παραποτάμιοι δʼ εἰσὶ κατοικία τις ἐπὶ τῷ Κηφισσῷ ἱδρυμένη πλησίον Φανοτεῦσι καὶ Χαιρωνεῦσι καὶ Ἐλατείᾳ. φησὶ δὲ Θεόπομπος τὸν τόπον τοῦτον διέχειν τῆς μὲν Χαιρωνείας ὅσον τετταράκοντα σταδίους, διορίζειν δὲ τοὺς Ἀμβρυσέας καὶ Πανοπέας καὶ Δαυλιέας· κεῖσθαι δʼ ἐπὶ τῆς ἐμβολῆς τῆς ἐκ Βοιωτίας εἰς Φωκέας ἐν λόφῳ μετρίως ὑψηλῷ, μεταξὺ τοῦ τε Παρνασσοῦ καὶ τοῦ ρους πενταστάδιον σχεδόν τι ἀπολειπόντων ἀνρίον, διαιρεῖν δὲ τὸν Κηφισσὸν στενὴν ἑκατέρωθεν διδόντα πάροδον, τὰς μὲν ἀρχὰς ἐκ Λιλαίας ἔχοντα Φωκικῆς πόλεως (καθάπερ καὶ Ὅμηρός φησιν οἵ τε Λίλαιαν ἔχον πηγῇς ἔπι Κηφισσοῖο ), εἰς δὲ τὴν Κωπαΐδα λίμνην ἐκδιδόντα· τὸ δὲ Ἁδύλιον παρατείνειν ἐφʼ ἑξήκοντα σταδίους μέχρι τοῦ Ἀκοντίου, ἐφʼ ᾧ κεῖται ὁ Ὀρχομενός. καὶ Ἡσίοδος δʼ ἐπὶ πλέον περὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ λέγει καὶ τῆς ῥύσεως, ὡς διʼ ὅλης ῥέοι τῆς Φωκίδος σκολιῶς καὶ δρακοντοειδῶς παρὲκ Πανοπῆα διὰ Γλήχωνά τʼ ἐρυμνὴν καί τε διʼ Ὀρχομενοῦ εἱλιγμένος εἶσι δράκων ὥς. τὰ δὲ στενὰ τὰ περὶ τοὺς Παραποταμίους ἢ τὴν Παραποταμίαν (λέγεται γὰρ ἀμφοτέρως) περιμάχητα ὑπῆρξεν ἐν τμῳ, μίαν ἐχόντων ταύτην ἐμβολὴν · ἔστι δὲ Κηφισσὸς ὅ τε Φωκικὸς καὶ ὁ Ἀθήνησι καὶ ὁ ἐν Σαλαμῖνι, τέταρτος δὲ καὶ πέμπτος ὁ ἐν Σικυῶνι καὶ ὁ ἐν Σκύρῳ, ἐν Ἀπολλωνίᾳ δὲ τῇ πρὸς Ἐπιδάμνῳ πηγή ἐστι κατὰ τὸ γυμνάσιον, ἣν καλοῦσι Κηφισσόν.
Parapotamii is a settlement on the Cephissus, in the neighbourhood of Phanoteus, Chaeroneia, and Elateia. This place, according to Theopompus, is distant from Chaeroneia about 40 stadia, and is the boundary between the Ambryseis, Panopeis, and Daulieis. It is situated at the entrance from Boeotia to the Phocians, upon an eminence of moderate height, between Parnassus and the mountain [Hadylium, where there is an open space] of 5 stadia in extent, through which runs the Cephissus, affording on each side a narrow pass. This river has its source at Lila, a Phocian city, as Homer testifies; they who occupied Lilaea, near the source of the Cephissus; / and empties itself into the lake Copais. But Hadylium extends 60 stadia, as far as Hyphanteium, on which Orchomenus is situated. Hesiod also enlarges on the river and its stream, how it takes through the whole of Phocis an oblique and serpentine course; which, like a serpent, winds along Panopeus and the strong Glechon, and through Orchomenus.
The narrow pass near Parapotamii, or Parapotamia, (for the name is written both ways,) was disputed in [the Phocian war,] for this is the only entrance [into Phocis].
There is a Cephissus in Phocis, another at Athens, and another at Salamis. There is a fourth and a fifth at Sicyon and at Scyrus; [a sixth at Argos, having its source in the Lyrceium]. At Apollonia, also, near Epidamnus, there is near the Gymnasium a spring, which is called Cephissus.
Δαφνοῦς δὲ νῦν μὲν κατέσκαπται· ἦν δέ ποτε τῆς Φωκίδος πόλις ἁπτομένη τῆς Εὐβοϊκῆς θαλάττης, διαιροῦσα τοὺς Ἐπικνημιδίους Λοκρούς, τοὺς μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ πρὸς Βοιω Φωκίδα τὴν ἀπὸ θαλάττης καθήκ. τεκμήριον δὲ τὸ ἐν αὐτῷ Σχεδιεῖον, ὅ φασιν εἶναι τάφον Σχεδίου. ται δὲ ὁ Δαφνοῦς ἐφʼ ἑκάτερα τὴν Λοκρίδα ε μηδαμοῦ ἅπτεσθαι ἀλλήλων τούς τʼ Ἐπικνημιὺς Ὀπουντίους· ὕστερον δὲ προσωρίσθη τοῖς πος. περὶ μὲν δὴ τῆς Φωκίδος ἀπόχρη.
Daphnus is at present in ruins. It was at one time a city of Phocis, and lay close to the Euboean Sea; it divided the Locri Epicnemidii into two bodies, namely, the Locri on the side of Boeotia, and the Locri on the side of Phocis, which then extended from sea to sea. A proof of this is the Schedieum, [in Daphnus,] called the tomb of Schedius. [It has been already said] that Daphnus [divides] Locris into two parts, [in such a manner as to prevent] the Epicnemidii and Opuntii from touching upon each other in any part. In aftertimes Daphnus was included within the boundaries of the [Opuntii].
On the subject of Phocis, this may suffice.
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