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 LOKRIAXS. 287 tia. The coast opposite to the western side of Eubcea, from the neighborhood of Thermopylae, as far as the Boeotian frontier at Anthedon, was possessed by the Lokrians, whose northern fron- tier town, Alpeni, was conterminous with the Malians. There was, however, one narrow strip of Phokis the town of Daph- nus, where the Phokians also touched the Eubcean sea which broke this continuity, and divided the Lokrians into two sections, Lokrians of Mount Knemis, or Epiknemidian Lokrians, and Lokrians of Opus, or Opuntian Lokrians. The mountain called Knemis, running southward parallel to the coast from the end of CEta, divided the former section from the inland Phokians and the upper valley of the Kephisus : farther southward, joining continuously with Mount Ptoon by means of an intervening mountain which is now called Chlomo, it separated the Lokrians of Opus from the territories of Orchomenus, Thebes, and Anthe- clon, the north-eastern portions of Boeotia, Besides these two sections of the Lokrian name, there was also a third, completely separate, and said to have been colonized out from Opus, the Lokrians surnamed Ozolse, who dwelt apart on the western side of Phokis, along the northern coast of the Corinthian gulf. They reached from Amphissa which overhung the plain of Krissa, and stood within seven miles of Delphi to Naupaktus. near the narrow entrance of the gulf; Avhich latter town was taken from these Lokrians by the Athenians, a little before the Peloponnesian war. Opus prided itself on being the mother-city of the Lokrian name, and the legends of Deukalion and Pyrrha found a home there as well as in Phthiotis. Alpeni, Nikasa, rhronium, and Skarpheia, were towns, ancient but unimportant, of the Epiknemidian Lokrians ; but the whole length of this Lokrian coast is celebrated for its beauty and fertility, both by Ancient and modern observers. 1 1 Strabo, ix. p. 425 ; Forchhammer, Hcllenika, pp. 11-12. Kynus is some- times spoken of as the harbor of Opus, but it was a city of itself as old as the Homeric Catalogue, and of some moment in the later wars of Greece, when military position came to be more va.Hied than legendary celebrity {Livy, xxviii. 6; Pausan. x. 1, 1 ; Skylax, c. Cl-62) ; the latter counts Thro- nium and Knemis or Knemides as being Phokian, not Lokrian ; which they were for a short time, during the prosperity of the Phokians, at the beginning rf the Sacred War, though not permanently ( JSscliin. Fals. Legat. c. 42, p