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 124 STRABO. CASAUB. 424. " they who occupied Lilaea, near the source of the Cephissus ; " 1 and empties itself into the lake Copais. But Hadylium ex- tends 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." 2 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]. 3 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]. 4 At Apollonia, 5 also, near Epidamnus, 6 there is near the Gymnasium a spring, which is called Cephissus. 17. Daphnus 7 is at present in ruins. It was at one time a city of Phocis, and lay close to the Eubcean Sea ; it divided the Locri Epicnemidii into two bodies, namely, the Locri on the side of Breotia, 8 and the Locri on the side of Phocis, which then extended from sea to sea. A proof of this is the Sche- dieum, [in Daphnus,] called the tomb of Schedius. 9 [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 after- times Daphnus was included within the boundaries of the [Opuntii]. On the subject of Phocis, this may suffice. 1 II. ii. 523. 2 The quotation is from a lost poem. 3 Conjectures of Groskurd, and approved by Kramer. 4 Meineke supposes these words to be an interpolation, because no mention is made by other writers, nor by Strabo himself, in his enumer- ation of the rivers in Argolis, of the existence of a river called Cephissus at Argos. 5 Polina. 6 Dyrrachium, now Durazzo. 7 The site appears to have been to the south-east of the modern town Neochorio. 8 From hence to the close of the .paragraph the text is very corrupt ; the restorations are due to the conjectures of Du Theil, Groskurd, and Kramer. 9 Schedius, according to Homer, II. ii. 517, and II. xvii. 306, was one of the chiefs of the Phocians.