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 PHOKIANS. - DORIA NS. . 289 which held its periodical meetings at a temple between Daulis and Delphi. The little territory called Doris and Dryopis, occupied the southern declivity of Mount (Eta, dividing Phokis on the north and north-west, from the JEtolians, JEnianes, and Malians. That which was called Doris in the historical tunes, and which reached, in the time of Herodotus, nearly as far eastward as the Maliac gulf, is said to have formed a part of what had been once called Dryopis ; a territory which had comprised the summit of CEta as far as the Spercheius, northward, and which had been inhabited by an old Hellenic tribe called Dryopes. The Dorians acquired their settlement in Dryopis by gift from Herakles, who, along with the Malians (so ran the legend), had expelled the Dryopes, and compelled them to find for themselves new seats at Hermione, and Asine, in the Argolic peninsula of Pelopon- nesus, at Styra and Karystus in Euboea, and in the island of Kythnus ; l it is only in these five last-mentioned places, that history recognizes them. The territory of Doris was distributed into four little townships, Pindus, or Akyphas, Boeon, Kytinion, and Erineon, each of which seems to have occupied a separate valley belonging to one of the feeders of the river Kephisus, the only narrow spaces of cultivated ground which this " small and sad " region presented. 2 In itself, this tetrapoh's is so insig- nificant, that we shall rarely find occasion to mention it ; but it acquired a factitious consequence by being regarded as the me- tropolis of the great Dorian cities in Peloponnesus, and receiving on that ground special protection from Sparta, I do not here touch upon that string of ante-historical migrations stated by Delphi, tells us all that we know respecting the less important towns of Phokis. Compare also Dr. Cramer's Geography of Greece, vol. ii. sect. 10; and Leake's Travels in Northern Greece, vol. ii. ch. 13. Two funeral monuments of the Phokian hero Schedius (who commands the Phokian troops before Troy, and is slain in the Iliad) marked the two extremities of Phokis, one at Daphnus on the Euboean sea, the other at Antikyra on the Corinthian gulf (Strabo, ix. p. 425; Pausan. x. 36, 4). 1 Herodot. viii. 31, 43, 46; Diodor. iv. 57 ; Aristot. ap. Strabo, viii. p. 373. 0. Miiller (History of the Dorians, book i. ch. ii.) has given all that can be known about Doris and Dryopis, together with some matters which appear to me very inadequately authenticated. YCL. II J3 190C.
 * Tlo/lf/f [iiKpal not ?.VTrp6x<jooi, Strabo, ix. ; 427.