CHAP. 4. (3.)—LOCRIS AND PHOCIS.
Next to Ætolia are the Locri1, surnamed Ozolæ; a people exempt from tribute. Here is the town of Œanthe2, the port3 of Apollo Phæstius, and the Gulf of Crissa4. In the interior are the towns of Argyna, Eupalia5, Phæstum, and Calamisus. Beyond are the Cirrhaean plains of Phocis, the town of Cirrha6, and the port of Chalæon7, seven miles from which, in the interior, is situate the free town of Delphi8, at the foot of Mount Parnassus9, and having the most celebrated oracle of Apollo throughout the whole world. There is the Fountain too of Castalia10, and the river Cephisus11 which flows past Delphi, rising in the former city of Lilæa12. Besides these, there is the town of Crissa13 and that of Anticyra14, with the Bulenses15; as also Naulochum16, Pyrrha, Amphissa17, exempt from all tribute, Tithrone, Tritea18, Ambrysus19, and Drymæa20, which district has also the name of Daulis. The extremity of the gulf washes one corner of Bœotia, with its towns of Siphæ21 and Thebes22, surnamed the Corsian, in the vicinity of Helicon23. The third town of Bœotia on this sea is that of Pagæ24, from which point the Isthmus of the Peloponnesus projects in the form of a neck.