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Corinth
Laconia
Messenia
Elis
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Achaia
Arcadia
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The length of the road from Delphi to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, is sixty stades. Descending to the plain you come to a race-course, where at the Pythian games the horses compete. I have told in my account of Elis1 the story of the Taraxippus at Olympia, and it is likely that the race-course of Apollo too may possibly harm here and there a driver, for heaven in every activity of man bestows either better fortune or worse. But the race-course itself is not of a nature to startle the horses, either by reason of a hero or on any other account.
Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
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- Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42, commentary, 42.15
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- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, KIRRHA (Xeropigadi) Phokis, Greece.
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AMPHIC´TYONES
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), PY´THIA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CRISSA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), DELPHI
- Smith's Bio, Cirrha
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