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 292 PLINT'S IfATTJRAL HISTORY. [Book IV. on tlie coast and below Thebes, are Ocalea Heleon, Scolos. Schoenos^, Peteon^, Hyrise'^, Mycalesos^, Iresion, Pteleon, Olyros, and Tanagra^, the people of which are free ; and, situate upon the very mouth of the Euripus'^, a strait formed by the opposite island of Euboea, Aulis^, so famous for its capacious harbour. The Boeotians formerly had the name of Hy antes. After them come the Locrians, sumamed Epicnemidii^, formerly called Leleges, through whose country the river Cephisus passes, in its course to the sea. Their towns are Opus^^ ; from which the Opuntian GrulP^ takes its name, and Cynos. Daphnus^'" is the only town of Phocis situate on the coast. In the interior of Locris is Elatea^^, and on the banks of the Cephisus, as we have previously stated^"*, Lilsea, and, facing Delphi, Cnemis^^ and Hyampolis^^. Again, upon vicinity between the Athenians and Boeotians, B.C. 447, and between Philip of Macedon and the Atlienians and Boeotians, B.C. 338, and that in which Sylla defeated the generals of Mithridates B.C. 86. It stood on the site of the modem village of Kapvu'na. ^ On the river Copais, at the foot of Mount Tilphusion. 2 On the river of that name, and on the road from Thebes to Anthedon. 3 Its site appears to be unknown. sufficient reason, identified it with Ilysise. 5 It was sacked by the Athenians, B.C. 413, and in ruins m the time of Pausanias. 6 The modem Grrimadha or Glrimala occupies its site. 7 The modem channel of Egripo. 8 The place where the G-recian fleet assembled when about to saU for Troy. Leake says that its harbour is now caUed Vathy, evidently from the Greek (3a9vs, " wide." 9 So called from dweUing near Moimt Cnemis. 10 Its ruins are to be seen three miles from the modern Talanti. n Now the Golfo di Talanti. 12 On the Euboean Sea, which here extended to the Corinthian Gulf. It was in ruins m the time of Strabo. Cynus was the chief sea-port of the Locri Opuntii. Its site i^s marked by a tower called Palseopyrgo, and some ruins to the south of the village of Livanates. 13 The modern village of Lefti stands on its site, and there are some ruins to be seen. !■♦ In C. iv. of this Book. 15 Or Cnemides, a fortress built on the range of Mount Cnemis, near the modem Nikoraki. 1^ Kavaged by Plulip of Macedon. Its ruins are near the modern vil- lage of Vogdhani.
 * Enumerated by Homer with AuHs. Ancient critics have, without