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Parapotamii lay on a low hill above the defile leading from Phocis to Boeotia. The pass through which the Cephisus flows is about a mile and a half long and a quarter of a mile in width (Frazer, v. 419).

Near the southern end of the pass lay Panopeus (Paus. x. 4. 1; Frazer), the border town of Phocis, only twenty stades from Chaeronea, and like that town on the southern edge of the plain. The road running south-east leads thence to Chaeronea and the territory of Orchomenus, that westward to Daulis and thence by the Schiste (ch. 35. 1 n.) to Delphi.

διατεταγμένοι: ‘dispositi per urbes’; cf. vii. 178. 1. For Alexander cf. v. 17 n., 22, and ch. 136-40.

τῇδε: explained not over clearly by the participial clause (cf. v. 16. 3). The presence of the Macedonian agents was intended to prove the Medism of the Boeotians, and thus to save them from molestation.

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