Kitap 9
3.13
On the seacoast after Anticyra, one comes first to a town called Opisthomarathus; then to a cape called Pharygium, where there is an anchoring-place; then to the harbor that is last, which, from the fact in the case, is called Mychus;Inmost recess. and it lies below Helicon and Ascre. And the oracle of Abae is not far from this region, nor Ambrysus, nor Medeon,On the site of Medeon see Frazer’s Pausanias, note on Paus. 36.6 which bears the same name as the Boeotian Medeon. Still farther in the interior, after Delphi, approximately towards the east, is a town Daulis, where Tereus the Thracian is said to have held sway (the scene of the mythical story of Philomela and Procne is laid there, though ThucydidesBut Thuc. 2.29 says: In that country (Daulia) Itys suffered at the hands of Philomela and Procne.” Eustathius ad Iliad 2.520 repeats without correction Strabo’s erroneous reference. says at Megara). The place got its name from the thickets, for they call thickets “dauli.” Now Homer called it Daulis, but later writers call it Daulia. And “Cyparissus,” in the words “held Cyparissus,”Hom. Il. 2.519is interpreted by writers in two ways, by some as bearing the same name as the tree,Cyparissus is the word for cypress tree. and by others, by a slight change in the spelling, as a village below Lycoreia.As the text stands, the meaning is obscure. The scholiast on Ven. A, Hom. Il. 2.519, says that Cyparissus was named after Cyparissus the brother of Orchomenus, or after the cypress trees that grew in it; and the scholiast on Ven. B ibid., “Cyparissus, the present Apollonias, named after Cyparissus.” Paus. 10.36.3 says: “In earlier times the name of the city was Cyparissus, and Homer, in his list of the Phocians, purposely used this name, though the city was even then called Anticyra” (see Frazer, note ad loc.). On the position of Lycoreia, see 9. 3. 3.
