Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy, 10.36.3

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[3] Ambrossos lies at the foot of Mount Parnassus, on the side opposite to Delphi. They say that the city was named after Ambrossos, a hero. On going to war with Philip and his Macedonians the Thebans drew round Ambrossos a double wall. It is made of a local stone, black in color and very hard indeed. Each ring of wall is a little less than a fathom broad, and two and a half fathoms in height except where it has broken down.

Description of Greece. Pausanias. ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy. . .

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Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως Perseus (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.) — 10.36.3 focus

[3]
ἡ δὲ Ἄμβροσσος κεῖται μὲν ὑπὸ τὸ ὄρος τὸν Παρνασσόν, τὰ ἐπέκεινα δὲ ἢ Δελφοί· τεθῆναι δὲ τὸ ὄνομα τῇ πόλει ἀπὸ ἥρωός φασιν Ἀμβρόσσου. Θηβαῖοι δὲ ἐς τὸν Μακεδόνων καὶ Φιλίππου καθιστάμενοι πόλεμον περιέβαλον τῇ Ἀμβρόσσῳ διπλοῦν τεῖχος· τὸ δέ ἐστιν ἐπιχωρίου λίθου, χρόαν μέλανος, ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἰσχυροῦ· κύκλος δὲ ἑκάτερος τοῦ τείχους πλάτος μὲν ἀποδέων ὀλίγον ἐστὶν ὀργυιᾶς, τὸ δὲ ὕψος ἐς ἡμίσειάν τε καὶ δύο ὀργυιάς, ὅπου μὴ τὸ τεῖχος πεπόνηκε·

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Description of Greece Perseus (Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece, Volumes 1-4. Jones, W.H.S. (William Henry Samuel), translator; Ormerod, Henry Arderne, translator. London, New York: W. Heinemann, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918-1935.) — 10.36.3 focus

[3]
Ambrossus lies at the foot of Mount Parnassus, on the side opposite to Delphi . They say that the city was named after Ambrossus, a hero. On going to war with Philip and his Macedonians the Thebans drew round Ambrossus a double wall. It is made of a local stone, black in color and very hard indeed. Each ring of wall is a little less than a fathom broad, and two and a half fathoms in height except where it has broken down.

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