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Decelea, on a hill near Tatoi, commands the road leading from the Attic plain over Mount Parnes to Oropus and Tanagra. The road ascends to the summit of the pass through wooded ravines, but is not difficult. Probably H. only gives us the route of the main column under Mardonius, and the Persians used other passes also (Delbrück, Perserkriege, p. 143 f.).

βοιωτάρχαι, eleven in number, formed the executive of the Boeotian league (Thuc. iv. 91; Oxyr. Papyr. v, p. 171).

Ἀσωπίων, called Parasopii (Strabo 408), = ‘men of the Asopus valley’ who would know the northern side of Parnes and the gorges leading down to the Asopus well, and also the pass into Attica.

Σφενδαλέας, or Sphendale, an Attic deme (Steph. Byz. C. I. A.) on the way to Tanagra (Milchöfer, Karten von Attika, Text. ix. 27 f.).

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