Kitap 9
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Parapotamii is a settlement on the Cephissus, in the neighbourhood of Phanoteus, Chaeroneia, and Elateia. This place, according to Theopompus, is distant from Chaeroneia about 40 stadia, and is the boundary between the Ambryseis, Panopeis, and Daulieis. It is situated at the entrance from Boeotia to the Phocians, upon an eminence of moderate height, between Parnassus and the mountain [Hadylium, where there is an open space] of 5 stadia in extent, through which runs the Cephissus, affording on each side a narrow pass. This river has its source at Lila, a Phocian city, as Homer testifies; they who occupied Lilaea, near the source of the Cephissus;Il. ii. 523.Il. ii. 523. and empties itself into the lake Copais. But Hadylium extends 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.The quotation is from a lost poem.
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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].Conjectures of Groskurd, and approved by Kramer.
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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].Meineke supposes these words to be an interpolation, because no mention is made by other writers, nor by Strabo himself, in his enumeration of the rivers in Argolis, of the existence of a river called Cephissus at Argos. At Apollonia,Polina. also, near Epidamnus,Dyrrachium, now Durazzo. there is near the Gymnasium a spring, which is called Cephissus.
