Book 9
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There is a Cephissus in Phocis, another at Athens, and another at Salamis. There is a fourth and a fifth at Sicyon and at Scyrus; [a sixth at Argos, having its source in the Lyrceium].Meineke supposes these words to be an interpolation, because no mention is made by other writers, nor by Strabo himself, in his enumeration of the rivers in Argolis, of the existence of a river called Cephissus at Argos. At Apollonia,Polina. also, near Epidamnus,Dyrrachium, now Durazzo. there is near the Gymnasium a spring, which is called Cephissus.
3.17
DaphnusThe site appears to have been to the south-east of the modern town Neochorio. is at present in ruins. It was at one time a city of Phocis, and lay close to the Euboean Sea; it divided the Locri Epicnemidii into two bodies, namely, the Locri on the side of Boeotia,From hence to the close of the paragraph the text is very corrupt; the restorations are due to the conjectures of Du Theil, Groskurd, and Kramer. and the Locri on the side of Phocis, which then extended from sea to sea. A proof of this is the Schedieum, [in Daphnus,] called the tomb of Schedius.Schedius, according to Homer, Il. ii. 517, and 11. xvii. 306, was one of the chiefs of the Phocians. [It has been already said] that Daphnus [divides] Locris into two parts, [in such a manner as to prevent] the Epicnemidii and Opuntii from touching upon each other in any part. In aftertimes Daphnus was included within the boundaries of the [Opuntii].
3.17
On the subject of Phocis, this may suffice.
