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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Boeotia, chapter 23 (search)
their homes here. The town lies on Mount Ptous, and there are here a temple and image of Dionysus that are worth seeing. About fifteen stades away from the city on the right is the sanctuary of Ptoan Apollo. We are told by Asius in his epic that Ptous, who gave a surname to Apollo and the name to the mountain, was a son of Athamas by Themisto. Before the expedition of the Macedonians under Alexander, in which Thebes was destroyed, there was here an oracle that never lied. Once too a mail of Europus, of the name of Mys, who was sent by Mardonius, inquired of the god in his own language, and the god too gave a response, not in Greek but in the Carian speech. On crossing Mount Ptous you come to Larymna, a Boeotian city on the coast, said to have been named after Larymna, the daughter of Cynus. Her earlier ancestors I shall give in my account of Locris.See Paus. 10.38.1. Of old Larymna belonged to Opus, but when Thebes rose to great power the citizens of their own accord joined the Boeoti