hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Pausanias, Description of Greece 104 0 Browse Search
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 24 0 Browse Search
Polybius, Histories 22 0 Browse Search
Aeschines, Speeches 12 0 Browse Search
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 12 0 Browse Search
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 6 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Orestes (ed. E. P. Coleridge) 6 0 Browse Search
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 6 0 Browse Search
Aeschines, Speeches 4 0 Browse Search
Sophocles, Electra (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding). You can also browse the collection for Phocis (Greece) or search for Phocis (Greece) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 1, line 253 (search)
nning Hart coulde in the streame by swiftnesse nothing get. The fleeting fowles long having sought for land to rest upon, Into the Sea with werie wings were driven to fall anon. Th'outragious swelling of the Sea the lesser hillockes drownde, Unwonted waves on highest tops of mountaines did rebownde. The greatest part of men were drownde, and such as scapte the floode, Forlorne with fasting overlong did die for want of foode. Against the fieldes of Aonie and Atticke lies a lande That Phocis hight, a fertile ground while that it was a lande: But at that time a part of Sea, and even a champion fielde Of sodaine waters which the floud by forced rage did yeelde, Where as a hill with forked top the which Parnasus hight, Doth pierce the cloudes and to the starres doth raise his head upright. When at this hill (for yet the Sea had whelmed all beside) Deucalion and his bedfellow, without all other guide, Arrived in a little Barke immediatly they went, And to the Nymphes of Corycus wit