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Anemoreia1 has its name from a physical accident, to which it is liable. It is exposed to violent gusts of wind from a place called Catopterius,2 a precipitous mountain, extending from Parnassus. It was a boundary between Delphi and the Phocians, when the Lacedæmonians made the Delphians separate themselves from the common body of the Phocians,3 and permitted them to form an independent state.

Some call the place Anemoleia; it was afterwards called by others Hyampolis,4 (and also Hya,) whither we said the Hyintes were banished from Bœotia. It is situated quite in the interior, near Parapotamii, and is a different place from Hyampea on Parnassus.

Elateia5 is the largest of the Phocian cities, but Homer was not acquainted with it, for it is later than his times. It is conveniently situated to repel incursions on the side of Thessaly. Demosthenes6 points out the advantage of its position, in speaking of the confusion which suddenly arose, when a messenger arrived to inform the Prytaneis of the capture of Elateia.

1 ἄνεμος, the wind.

2 The Look-out.

3 457, B. C.

4 This place was destroyed in the Persian war; no remains existed in the time of Pausanias.

5 The ruins are situated on the east of Turkochorio, made a free state by the Romans. Pausanias, b. x. ch. 34.

6 Demos. pro Coronâ. B. C. 338.

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