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ἀπέργοντες (cf. vii. 43. 2). From Daulis (Paus. x. 4. 7, with Frazer) the road skirts Mount Parnassus for about five miles. Where it turns west it is met by the road from Thebes; these with the road to Delphi form the famous ‘Schiste or Triodos’ (Soph. O. T. 730, 733) where Oedipus slew Laius. Thence it ascends a deep valley enclosed by the steep and rocky slopes of Mount Parnassus (north) and Mount Cirphis (south). Near the top of the pass are the ruins of a Greek fortress, perhaps Aeolidae. Thence one road leads down the valley to Cirrha and Amphissa, another to the right along the steep slopes of Parnassus to Delphi (Paus. x. 5. 3 f., with Frazer).


τὰ Κροίσου ... ἀναθήματα: cf. i. 50 f., 92.

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