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Elateia is, with the exception of Delphi, the largest city in Phocis. It lies over against Amphicle r a short distance quite close to the town of Elateia. In the plain flows the Cephisus, and the mos yed behind in Phocis, becoming the founder of Elateia.
Elateia must be numbered among the cities ofElateia must be numbered among the cities of the Phocians burnt by the Persians. Some disasters were shared by Elateia with the other Phocians,Elateia with the other Phocians, but she had peculiar calamities of her own, inflicted by fate at the hands of the Macedonians. In , the son of Demetrius, reduced the people of Elateia to the utmost terror, and at the same time se reeks their freedom, promised to give back to Elateia its ancient constitution, and by messengers m Greece in my day, visited among other cities Elateia. Whereupon a certain Mnesibulus gathered roun Olympic festival.162 A.D In Runner Street at Elateia there stands a bronze statue of Mnesibulus.
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About twenty stades away from Elateia is a sanctuary of Athena surnamed Cranaea. Th
To reach Abae and Hyampolis from Elateia you may go along a mountain road on the right of the city of Elateia, but the highway from Orchomenus to Opus also leads to those cities. If then you go along the road from Orchomenus to Opus, and turn off a little to the left, you reach the road to Abae. The people of Abae say that they came to Phocis from Argos, and that the city got its name from Abas, the founder, who was a son of Lynceus and of Hypermnestra, the daughter of Danails. Abae from of oldElateia, but the highway from Orchomenus to Opus also leads to those cities. If then you go along the road from Orchomenus to Opus, and turn off a little to the left, you reach the road to Abae. The people of Abae say that they came to Phocis from Argos, and that the city got its name from Abas, the founder, who was a son of Lynceus and of Hypermnestra, the daughter of Danails. Abae from of old has been considered sacred to Apollo, and here too there was an oracle of that god.
The treatment that the god at Abae received at the hands of the Persians was very different from the honor paid him by the Romans. For while the Romans have given freedom of government to Abae because of their reverence for Apollo, the army of Xerxes burned down, as it did others, the sanctuary at Abae. The Greeks who opposed the barbarians resolved not to rebuild the sanctuaries burnt down by them, but to leav