Book 9
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DaphnusThe site appears to have been to the south-east of the modern town Neochorio. is at present in ruins. It was at one time a city of Phocis, and lay close to the Euboean Sea; it divided the Locri Epicnemidii into two bodies, namely, the Locri on the side of Boeotia,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. and the Locri on the side of Phocis, which then extended from sea to sea. A proof of this is the Schedieum, [in Daphnus,] called the tomb of Schedius.Schedius, according to Homer, Il. ii. 517, and 11. xvii. 306, was one of the chiefs of the Phocians. [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 aftertimes Daphnus was included within the boundaries of the [Opuntii].
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On the subject of Phocis, this may suffice.
CHAPTER IV.
4.1
LOCRIS, which we are now to describe, follows next in order.
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It is divided into two parts, one of which is occupied by the Locri opposite Euboea, and, as we have already said, formerly consisted of two bodies, situated one on each side of Daphnus. The Locri Opuntii had their surname from Opus,The ruins of Opus are indicated as existing between Talanti and the sea. the capital; the Epicnemidii from a mountain called Cnemis.A portion of the ridge of Oeta, on the north-west of Talanti, now Chlomos. The rest are the Locri Hesperii, who are called also Locri Ozolae. These are separated from the Locri Opuntii and Epicnemidii by Parnassus, which lies between them, and by the Tetrapolis of the Dorians. We shall first speak of the Opuntii.
