Strabo, Geography, Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator), 9.3.17

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[17] Daphnus¹ 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,² 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.³ [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].

On the subject of Phocis, this may suffice.

Geography. Strabo. Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator). London. 1854-1857.

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Geography (English) (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 1-3. Hamilton, Hans Claude, translator; Falconer, William, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854-1857.)

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Γεωγραφικά Perseus (Strabo. Strabonis Geographica, Vols. 1-3. Meineke, August, editor. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.) — 9.3.17 focus

[17] Δαφνοῦς δὲ νῦν μὲν κατέσκαπται· ἦν δέ ποτε τῆς Φωκίδος πόλις ἁπτομένη τῆς Εὐβοϊκῆς θαλάττης, διαιροῦσα τοὺς Ἐπικνημιδίους Λοκρούς, τοὺς μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ πρὸς Βοιω τίαν μέρος τοὺς δὲ πρὸς Φωκίδα τὴν ἀπὸ θαλάττης καθήκ ουσαν τότε ἐπὶ θάλατταν. τεκμήριον δὲ τὸ ἐν αὐτῷ Σχεδιεῖον, ὅ φασιν εἶναι τάφον Σχεδίου. εἴρηται δὲ ὁ Δαφνοῦς ἐφʼ ἑκάτερα τὴν Λοκρίδα σχίσαι, ὥστε μηδαμοῦ ἅπτεσθαι ἀλλήλων τούς τʼ Ἐπικνημι δίους καὶ τοὺς Ὀπουντίους· ὕστερον δὲ προσωρίσθη τοῖς Ὀπουντίοις ὁ τόπος. περὶ μὲν δὴ τῆς Φωκίδος ἀπόχρη.

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Geography (Books 6-14) Perseus (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 3-6. Jones, Horace Leonard, translator. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1924-1929 (printing).) — 9.3.17 focus

[17] Daphnus is now razed to the ground. It was at one time a city of Phocis, bordering on the Euboean Sea; it divided the Epicnemidian Locrians into two parts, one part in the direction of Boeotia, and the other facing Phocis, which at that time reached from sea to sea. And evidence of this is the Schedieium in Daphnus, which, they say, is the tomb of Schedius; but as I have said,¹ Daphnus “split”² Locris on either side, so that the Epicnemidian and Opuntian Locrians nowhere bordered on one another; but in later times the place was included within the boundaries of the Opuntians. Concerning Phocis, however, I have said enough.

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1. The site appears to have been to the south-east of the modern town Neochorio.

2. 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.

3. Schedius, according to Homer, Il. ii. 517, and 11. xvii. 306, was one of the chiefs of the Phocians.

Strabo Geography 9.3.17

Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator)

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