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Δρυμός: called Drymaea (Paus. x. 33. 12), on the south face of a small hill projecting from the chain bounding the valley of the Cephisus on the north, with well-preserved walls and towers, five miles north-west of Amphiclea; cf. Frazer, ad loc.

Τεθρώνιον (Paus. l. c.): Moulki, in the plain north of the Cephisus, defended on three sides by its tributary the river of Dernitsa; cf. Frazer, ad loc.

Ἀμφίκαια: Amphiclea (Paus. x. 33. 9; cf. Frazer), now Dadi, at the foot of an outlying spur of Parnassus. H., giving (ch. 33-5) fifteen names, seems to have mentioned every town in the district: indeed Πεδιέας and Τριτέας are otherwise unknown names, and Plutarch only speaks of thirteen cities laid waste (de Malig. Herod. 35).

Abae stood on a nearly isolated rocky hill over 500 feet high a mile south-west of Hyampolis (28 n.). The scanty remains of the temples of Apollo are about a quarter of a mile to the north-west of the hill; cf. Paus. x. 35. 1-3; Frazer, ad loc. Though the burning of the temple is affirmed also by Pausanias, who adds that it was not restored, it is difficult to see how such complete destruction can be reconciled with the preservation of the statues, apparently dedicated earlier (viii. 27) but seen by H. after this time, or with the consultation of the oracle by the Carian Mys (viii. 134). Probably the gold and silver were carried off and the woodwork burned, but the Greek temple had no arched vault to spread destruction in its fall. Its walls and pillars would suffer comparatively little from fire and could be easily restored.

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