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[5] He endeavoured also to prove that the judgments of the Amphictyons were unjust in the highest degree, since they had inflicted huge fines for the cultivation of what was a very small parcel of land. Accordingly he advised them to treat the fines as null and void and declared that the Phocians had strong grounds for their case against the Amphictyons: for in ancient times they had held control and guardianship of the oracle. As witness he offered the most ancient and greatest of all poets, Homer who said:“ Now over Phocians Schedius ruled and e'en Epistrophus,
They dwelt in Cyparissus1 and in Pytho2 land of rocks.
Hom. Il. 2.517-519

1 Town near Delphi.

2 Homeric name for Delphi.

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