§9.3.1μετὰ δὲ τὴν Βοιωτίαν καὶ τὸν Ὀρχομενὸν ἡ Φωκίς ἐστι πρὸς ἄρκτον παραβεβλημένη τῇ Βοιωτίᾳ παραπλησίως ἀπὸ θαλάττης εἰς θάλατταν τό γε παλαιόν.
And after Boeotia and Orchomenus is Phocis, lying to the north alongside Boeotia, similarly from sea to sea, at least in ancient times.
ὁ γὰρ Δαφνοῦς ἦν τότε τῆς Φωκίδος, σχίζων ἐφʼ ἑκάτερα τὴν Λοκρίδα καὶ μέσος ταττόμενος τοῦ τε Ὀπουντίου κόλπου καὶ τῆς τῶν Ἐπικνημιδίων παραλίας· νῦν δὲ Λοκρῶν ἐστὶν ἡ χώρα (τὸ δὲ πόλισμα κατέσκαπται), ὥστʼ οὐδʼ ἐκεῖ καθήκει οὐκέτι μέχρι τῆς πρὸς Εὐβοίᾳ θαλάττης ἡ Φωκίς, τῷ δὲ Κρισαίῳ κόλπῳ συνῆπται.
For Daphnus belonged to Phocis at that time, dividing Locris on either side and being situated in the middle between the Opuntian Gulf and the coast of the Epicnemidian Locrians; but now the territory belongs to the Locrians (and the small town has been razed), so that Phocis no longer reaches down there as far as the sea near Euboea, but is connected to the Crisaean Gulf.
αὐτὴ γὰρ ἡ Κρῖσα τῆς Φωκίδος ἐστὶν ἐπʼ αὐτῆς ἱδρυμένη τῆς θαλάττης καὶ Κίρρα καὶ Ἀντικύρα καὶ τὰ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ συνεχῆ κείμενα χωρία πρὸς τῷ Παρνασσῷ, Δελφοί τε καὶ Κίρφις καὶ Δαυλὶς καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Παρνασσὸς τῆς τε Φωκίδος ὢν καὶ ἀφορίζων τὸ ἑσπέριον πλευρόν.
For Crisa itself belongs to Phocis, being situated on the sea itself, as well as Cirrha and Anticyra, and the places lying continuously above them in the interior near Parnassus: Delphi, Cirphis, Daulis, and Parnassus itself, which belongs to Phocis and limits its western side.
ὃν τρόπον δʼ ἡ Φωκὶς τῇ Βοιωτίᾳ παράκειται, τοῦτον καὶ ἡ Λοκρὶς τῇ Φωκίδι ἑκατέρα.
And in the same way as Phocis lies alongside Boeotia, so also does each of the two Locris lie alongside Phocis.
διττὴ γάρ ἐστι διῃρημένη ὑπὸ τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ δίχα, ἡ μὲν ἐκ τοῦ ἑσπερίου μέρους παρακειμένη τῷ Παρνασσῷ καὶ μέρος αὐτοῦ νεμομένη, καθήκουσα δʼ ἐπὶ τὸν Κρισαῖον κόλπον, ἡ δʼ ἐκ τοῦ πρὸς ἕω τελευτῶσα ἐπὶ τὴν πρὸς Εὐβοίᾳ θάλατταν.
For it is twofold, divided into two by Parnassus, the one on the western side lying alongside Parnassus and occupying a part of it, and reaching down to the Crisaean Gulf, and the other on the eastern side ending at the sea near Euboea.
καλοῦνται δʼ οἱ μὲν ἑσπέριοι Λοκροὶ καὶ Ὀζόλαι, ἔχουσί τε ἐπὶ τῇ δημοσίᾳ σφραγῖδι τὸν ἕσπερον ἀστέρα ἐγκεχαραγμένον· οἱ δʼ ἕτεροι δίχα πως καὶ αὐτοὶ διῃρημένοι, οἱ μὲν Ὀπούντιοι ἀπὸ τῆς μητροπόλεως, ὅμοροι Φωκεῦσι καὶ Βοιωτοῖς, οἱ δʼ Ἐπικνημίδιοι ἀπὸ ὄρους Κνημῖδος, προσεχεῖς Οἰταίοις τε καὶ Μαλιεῦσιν.
And the western Locrians are also called Ozolae, and they have the evening star engraved on their public seal; while the others are also themselves divided somehow into two: the Opuntians, named after their metropolis, bordering on the Phocians and Boeotians, and the Epicnemidians, named after Mount Cnemis, adjacent to the Oetaeans and Malians.
ἐν μέσῳ δὲ ἀμφοῖν τῶν τε Ἑσπερίων καὶ τῶν ἑτέρων Παρνασσός, παραμήκης εἰς τὸ προσάρκτιον μέρος ἐκτεινόμενος ἀπὸ τῶν περὶ Δελφοὺς τόπων μέχρι τῆς συμβολῆς τῶν τε Οἰταίων ὀρῶν καὶ τῶν Αἰτωλικῶν καὶ τῶν ἀνὰ μέσον Δωριέων.
And in the middle of both, that is, the Western Locrians and the others, is Parnassus, extending lengthwise toward the north from the places around Delphi to the junction of the Oetaean and Aetolian mountains and the Dorians in between.
πάλιν γὰρ ὥσπερ ἡ Λοσα τοῖς Φωκεῦσι παραβέβληται, οὕτω μετὰ τῆς Αἰτωλίας καί τινων ἀνὰ μέσον τρικῆς τετραπόλεως τῇ Λοκρίδι ἑκατέρᾳ σῷ καὶ τοῖς Δωριεῦσιν.
For again, just as Locris lies alongside the Phocians, so too, along with Aetolia and certain people in between, Doris connects in a threefold way with each of the two Locris and with the Dorians.
ὑπὲρ τούτων δʼ ἤδη καὶ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν οἱ προσάρκτιοι καὶ Ἀκαρν τῶν Ἠπειρωτικῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ τῶν Μακεδονικῶν· ὅπερ ἔφαμεν καὶ πρότερον, παραλλήλους ὥς τινὰς τεταμένας ἀπὸ τῆς ἑσπέρας ἐπὶ τὰς ἀ νοῆσαι τὰς λεχθείσας χώρας.
And above these and the Aetolians are already the northern peoples, and the Acarnanians, and some of the Epirot and Macedonian tribes; as we said before, one should conceive these mentioned countries as being stretched out parallel, as it were, from west to east.
ἱεροπρεπὴς δʼ ἐστὶ πᾶς ὁ Παρνασσός, ἔχων ἄντρα τε καὶ ἄλλα χωρία τιμώμενά τε καὶ ἁγιστευόμενα· ὧν ἐστι γνωριμώτατόν τε καὶ κάλλιστον τὸ Κωρύκιον νυμφῶν ἄντρον ὁμώνυμον τῷ Κιλικίῳ.
And the whole of Parnassus is sacred, having caves and other places that are honored and held sacred; of which the most famous and beautiful is the Corycian cave of the nymphs, homonymous with the Cilician one.
τῶν δὲ πλευρῶν τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ τὸ μὲν ἑσπέριον νέμονται Λοκροί τε οἱ Ὀζόλαι καί τινες τῶν Δωριέων καὶ Αἰτωλοὶ κατὰ τὸν Κόρακα προσαγορευόμενον Αἰτωλικὸν ὄρος, τὸ δὲ Φωκεῖς καὶ Δωριεῖς οἱ πλείους, ἔχοντες τὴν Τετράπολιν περικειμένην πως τῷ Παρνασσῷ, πλεονάζουσαν δὲ τοῖς πρὸς ἕω.
And of the sides of Parnassus, the western side is occupied by the Ozolian Locrians, some of the Dorians, and the Aetolians near the Aetolian mountain called Corax, while the eastern side is occupied by the Phocians and the majority of the Dorians, who possess the Tetrapolis which lies somehow around Parnassus, but extends more toward the east.
αἱ μὲν οὖν κατὰ τὸ μῆκος πλευ λεχθεισῶν χωρῶν τε καὶ ταινιῶν ἑκάστης παρ ἅπασαί εἰσιν, ἡ μὲν οὖσα προσάρκτιος ἡ. αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ ἑσπέριοι ταῖς ἑῴαις οὔκ εἰσι πδὲ ἡ παραλία ἑκατέρα, ἥ τε τοῦ Κριχρι Ἀκτίου καὶ ἡ πρὸς Εὔβοιαν μέχρι τῆς παράλληλοι ἀλλήλαις εἰσίν, εἰς ἃς τελ ἔθνη· ἀλλʼ οὕτω δέχεσθαι δεῖ τὰ σχήματα ρίων ὡς ἂν ἐν τριγώνῳ παρὰ τὴν γραμμῶν πλειόνων· τὰ γὰρ ἀποληφράλληλα μὲν ἀλλήλοις ἔσται, καὶ τὰς τίον πλευρὰς ἕξει παραλλήλους, τκέτι.
Thus, the sides along the length of each of the mentioned countries and strips are parallel to one another, one being northern and the other southern; but the remaining western sides are not parallel to the eastern ones, nor are the two coastlines—both the one of the Crisaean Gulf as far as Actium and the one facing Euboea as far as Sunium—parallel to each other, where the territories of the nations end; but one must accept the shapes of the regions as if they were several lines parallel to the base inside a triangle; for the intercepted shapes will indeed be parallel to one another, and will have their northern and southern sides parallel, but the remaining sides no longer so.
ὁ μὲν οὖν ὁλοσχερὴς τύπος οὗτος τῆς λοιπῆς καὶ ἐφεξῆς περιοδείας, τὰ καθʼ ἕκαστα δʼ ἑξῆς λέγωμεν ἀπὸ τῆς Φωκίδος ἀρξάμενοι.
Such then is the general outline of the remaining and subsequent tour; let us now describe the details in order, starting from Phocis.