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15 What is the wooden dog among the Locrians?

15 Locrus was the son of Physcius, the son of Amphictyon. The son of Locrus and Cabyê was Opus. His father quarrelled with Opus and taking many of the citizens with him he went to seek an oracle concerning a colony. The god told him to found a city where he should chance to be bitten by a wooden dog, and, as he was crossing to the other sea, he trod upon a dog-brier. cf. Athenaeus, 70 c-d. Greatly troubled by the wound, he spent several days there, during which he explored the country and founded the cities Physcus and Oeantheia and the other cities which the so-called Ozolian Locrians inhabited.

15 Some say that the Locrians are called Ozolian because of Nessus; others say that it is because of the serpent Python, since their bodies were washed up by the sea and rotted away in the country of the Locrians. But some say that these men wear fleeces and goatskins and for the most part spend their time with herds of goats, and thus became evil-smelling. cf. Pausanias, x. 38. But some, on the contrary, assert that, since the country has many flowers, it acquired its name from sweet odour. Among these is also ArchytasPowell, Collectanea Alexandrina, p. 23. of Amphissa, for he has written thus: Lovely Macyna, wreathed with clusters of grapes and fragrant with perfume.

16 What is it that the Megarians call aphabroma?