II. THE WOMEN OF PHOCIS Cf. Polyaenus, Strategemata, viii. 65; Pausanias, x. 1. 3-11.
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The deed of the women of Phocis has not found any writer of high repute to describe it, yet it is not inferior in point of bravery to anything ever done by women, as is attested by imposing sacred rites which the Phocians perform even to this day in the neighbourhood of Hyampolis, and by ancient decrees. Of these events a detailed account of the achievements Cf. Herodotus, viii. 27-28. is given in the Life of Daïphantus,One of Plutarch’s Lives which has not been preserved. It is No. 38 in the catalogue of Lamprias. and the women’s part was as follows.