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For Thessalian enmity to Phocis cf. vii. 176. 4, and for Thessalian allies vii. 132. 1 n. The date of this war cannot be fixed, but is probably after 510 B. C. Plutarch (Mor. 244) implies that the Thessalians had previously subdued the Phocians and set up tyrants in their cities; these the Phocians slew when they revolted. The Thessalians in revenge stoned 250 Phocian hostages and then invaded Phocis through Locris. Pausanias (x. 1) makes the war begin with (1) the disaster to the Thessalian cavalry described in ch. 28, and end with the stratagem of Tellias given here (4). Between the two he inserts (2) the destruction of a picked Phocian force of 300 by the Thessalian horse, and (3) a desperate resolve of the Phocians to conquer or to die themselves, and to devote their wives and families to the flames, which leads up to a brilliant victory (cf. Plut. Mor. 244). Though Pausanias is a little confused, these stories seem to belong to this war, and not to an earlier struggle before 570 B. C., when the Thessalians were defeated near Thespiae by the Boeotians (Plut. Camillus 19; cf. de Mal. Her. 33). For full criticism and reconstruction cf. Macan, ad loc.
ἐς τὸν Παρνησσόν: cf. ch. 32. 1. Τελλίην: probably of the family of the Telliadae (ix. 37. 1; cf. ix. 33. 1 n.).
Abae, too, was an oracle of Apollo; cf. i. 46. 2; viii. 33 n., 134. 1.
ἡ δεκάτη: the customary tithe; cf. v. 77. 4 and c. 26. 2 τὸν διδόμενον στέφανον. συνεστεῶτες: probably like περί local, ‘standing face to face,’ but with the implied sense of hostility, which the word bears elsewhere in H. For a full description cf. Paus. x. 13. 7. Heracles and Apollo were struggling for the tripod, Leto and Artemis trying to calm Apollo, and Athena Heracles. The struggle for the tripod was represented also in the gable of the Cnidian or Siphnian treasury at Delphi (Frazer, Paus. v. 274), in relief at Lycosura (Paus. viii. 37. 1), and is frequent on vases (Baum. i. 463). Pausanias also tells us (x. 1. 10) of other offerings for the victory numbered (3) above.
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