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  • Thebans, but towards Phokis, desiring as quickly as possible to reach the Hellespont.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Phokis over which these marched they ravaged; for they set fire to the towns of Panopeus and Daulis and Aiolis.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • When these words were reported, then the Thessalians, moved with anger against the Phokians, became guides to the Barbarian to show him the way: and from the land of Trachis they entered Doris; for a narrow strip1252 of the Dorian territory extends this way, about thirty furlongs in breadth, lying between Malis and Phokis, the region which was in ancient time called Dryopis; this land is the mother-country of the Dorians in

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Oreos, Karystos, and Porthmos in Evbœa; Avlon; Diavleia in Phokis, and Koroneia in Bœotia; Andros, Skyros, Syros, and Seriphos of the islands; and, later, Keos and Ægina.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Parnassos on their right hand: and all the parts of Phokis over which these marched they ravaged; for they set fire to the towns of Panopeus and Daulis and Aiolis.

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • Then he no longer led his men in the same order as before, but set off at a run, taking flight by the quickest way not to the palisade nor yet to the wall of the Thebans, but towards Phokis, desiring as quickly as possible to reach the Hellespont.

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • When these words were reported, then the Thessalians, moved with anger against the Phokians, became guides to the Barbarian to show him the way: and from the land of Trachis they entered Doris; for a narrow strip [21] of the Dorian territory extends this way, about thirty furlongs in breadth, lying between Malis and Phokis, the region which was in ancient time called Dryopis; this land is the mother-country of the Dorians in Peloponnese.

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • When however from Doris they entered Phokis, they did not indeed capture the Phokians themselves; for some of them had gone up to the heights of

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • At Pytho and at Clarus, in Lycia and in Phokis, his oracles still breathed forth upon their fiat terror or hope into the lives of men; and still in all the virgin forests of the world the wild beasts honoured him wheresoever they wandered, and the lion and the boar came at his bidding from the deserts to bend their free necks and their wills of fire meekly to bear his yoke in Thessaly.

    Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • The former, especially, lays open Ætolia, Phokis, and Bœotia, as the whole northern coast of Peloponnesus, to water approach ....

    Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 1852

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