Book 9
4.7
However, Homer does not mention the Western Locrians, or at least not in express words, but only in that he seems by contrast to distinguish these from those other Locrians of whom I have already spoken, when he says, “of the Locrians who dwell opposite sacred Euboea,”Hom. Il. 2.535 implying that there was a different set of Locrians. But they have not been much talked about by many others either. The cities they held were Amphissa and Naupactus; of these, Naupactus survives, near Antirrhium, and it was named from the shipbuilding“Naus” (ship” and “pactos” (put together, built), the Doric spelling of the verbal πηκτός. that was once carried on there, whether it was because the Heracleidae built their fleet there, or (as Ephorus says) because the Locrians had built ships there even before that time. It now belongs to the Aetolians, having been adjudged to them by Philip.
4.8
Here, also, is Chalcis, which the poet mentions in the Aetolian Catalogue;Hom. Il. 2.640 it is below Calydon. Here, also, is the hill Taphiassus, on which are the tombs of Nessus and the other Centaurs, from whose putrefied bodies, they say, flows forth at the base of the hill the water which is malodorous and clotted; and it is on this account, they add, that the tribe is also called Ozolian.i.e., Ozolian Locrians, as well as Western (see 9. 4. 1). The authorities quote by Strabo derive “Ozolian” from “ozein” (to smell). Molycreia, an Aetolian town, is also near Antirrhium. The site of Amphissa is on the edge of the Crisaean Plain; it was razed to the ground by the Amphictyons, as I have said.9. 3. 4. And both Oeantheia and Eupalium belong to the Locrians. The whole voyage along the Locrian coast slightly exceeds two hundred stadia in length.
