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Flavius Josephus, The Life of Flavius Josephus (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for his house, Plancius, Sextius, Coelius, Milo, Ligarius, etc. (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Pausanias, Description of Greece. You can also browse the collection for Cyrene (Libya) or search for Cyrene (Libya) in all documents.
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In the tenth year after the seizure of the sanctuary, Philip put an end to the war, which was called both the Phocian War and the Sacred War, in the year when Theophilus was archon at Athens, which was the first of the hundred and eighth Olympiad348 B.C at which Polycles of Cyrene was victorious in the foot-race. The cities of Phocis were captured and razed to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus and Daulis. These cities were distinguished in days of old, especially because of the poetry of Homer.See Hom. Il. 2.520
The army of Xerxes, burning down certain of these, made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities, except Elateia, were not famous in former times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris. On the occasion to which I have referred all the cities enumerated were razed to the ground and their peo