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 106 STRABO. CASAUB. 410. 26. After Thespise the poet enumerates Graia and Myca- lessus, of which we have before spoken. He proceeds as before, " They who lived near Harma, Eilesium, and Erythrse, And they who occupied Eleon, Hyle, and Peteon." l Peteon is a village of the Thebais near the road to Anthedon. Ocalea is midway between Haliartus, 2 and Alalcomenae, 3 it is distant from each 30 stadia. A small river of the same name flows by it. Medeon, belonging to Phocis, is on the Crissean Gulf, distant from Bosotia 160 stadia. The Medeon of Bo30- tia has its name from that in Phocis. It is near Onchestus, under the mountain Phoenicium, 4 whence it has the appella- tion of Phoenicia. This mountain is likewise assigned to the Theban district, but by others to the territories of Haliartus, as also Medeon and Ocalea. 27. Homer afterwards names, " Copae, and Eutresis, and Thisbe, abounding with doves." 5 II. ii. 499. 2 The remains of Haliartus are situated upon a hill about a mile from the village of Mazi, on the road from Thebes to Lebadeia, and at the dis- tance of about 15 miles from either place. Although the walls of the town are scarcely anywhere traceable, its extent is marked on the east and west by two small rivers, of which that to the west issues from the foot of the hill of Mazi, the eastern, called the Kafalari, has its origin in Mount Helicon. The stream on the western side of the city is the one called Hoplites by Plutarch, where Lysander fell in battle with the The- bans, B. c. 395, and is apparently the same as the Lophis of Pausanias. TKe stream on the eastern side, the Kafalari, is formed by the union of two rivulets, which appear to be the Permessus and Olmeius, which are described by Strabo as flowing from Helicon, and after their union enter- ing the Lake Copais, near Haliartus. Smith. 8 It was celebrated for the worship of Athena, who is hence called Alalcomeneis in Homer. The temple of the goddess stood at a little dis- tance from the town, on the Triton, a small stream flowing into the Lake Copais. The modern village Sulinari is the site of Alalcomense. Smith. the Lakes Copais and Hylica, connecting Mount Ptoum with the range of Helicon. Forchamer supposes that Phoenicium and Sphingium are the names of two different mountains, separated from one another by the small plain of the stream Daulos ; but the name of Phcenicium rests only on the authority of Strabo, and it is probably a corruption of Phicium. $i? is the Molic form of 20ty, (Hes. Theog. 326,) and therefore there can be no doubt that Phicium and Sphingium are two different forms of the same name. Smith. 5 ~ II. ii. 502.
 * Phoenicium, or Sphingium, now called Faga, the mountain between