Kitap 9
4.8
Here, also, is Chalcis, which the poet mentions in the Aetolian Catalogue;Hom. Il. 2.640 it is below Calydon. Here, also, is the hill Taphiassus, on which are the tombs of Nessus and the other Centaurs, from whose putrefied bodies, they say, flows forth at the base of the hill the water which is malodorous and clotted; and it is on this account, they add, that the tribe is also called Ozolian.i.e., Ozolian Locrians, as well as Western (see 9. 4. 1). The authorities quote by Strabo derive “Ozolian” from “ozein” (to smell). Molycreia, an Aetolian town, is also near Antirrhium. The site of Amphissa is on the edge of the Crisaean Plain; it was razed to the ground by the Amphictyons, as I have said.9. 3. 4. And both Oeantheia and Eupalium belong to the Locrians. The whole voyage along the Locrian coast slightly exceeds two hundred stadia in length.
4.9
There is a place named Alope, not only here and among the Epicnemidian Locrians, but also in Phthiotis. Now theseHe means, apparently, the Ozolian Locrians. are colonists of the Epicnemidian Locrians, but the Epizephyrian Locrians are colonists of these.Again he appears to mean the Ozolian Locrians.
