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236 LAKE KOPAIS.
found at O^eia, Ku^ny, which was at the mouth of the Cephissos,
near which there was a fertile plain called Iickm. To the north of Oxeia
Kampe was a place called Boyfytx. It is difficult to know whether
Theophrastus, by the word ro-rvoq, alluded to towns or villages, or
merely to parts of the plain, which bore the names in question.
Pliny1 mentions six kinds of Orchomenian calami; the characia,
the plotia, the auleticon, the donax, the zeugitae, and bombyciee,
which aYe the x<*PXK'xs> wXww^tj uvXtitikos, tova.%, ievyiTVjq, and £op[2u)ttotg
of Theophrastus.
During the more prosperous days of Greece, when the arts
flourished, and opulence was generally diffused, this vale must have
been strikingly interesting, by the assemblage of natural and arti-
ficial beauties which it displayed. Surrounded by sublime moun-
tains or varied hills, and fertilized by numerous streams, it was then
adorned by wealthy cities and independent communities, where
admiration was excited, or piety kindled, by the sight of accumu-
lated temples ; of groves and fountains, animated by a multiplicity
of presiding deities; of caverns where oracles were delivered, or
the mysteries of futurity developed ; and where all the embellish-
ments of a fanciful, but elegant superstition, were scattered over the
enchanted ground.
The plain is closed, towards Phocis, by Parnassos; and the
chain which, branching from it towards Libethrion and Helicon, is
ornamented with the ruins of Daulis, Panopeus, Anemoria,2 or
Hyampolis, Chajroneia, and Lebadeia. Further to the s. e. to-
wards the body of Helicon, are the remains of Tilphousion, Koro-
neia, Alalkomenai, and Haliartos. Helicon separates the plain from
that of Thespeia. Mount Tilphousion and Mount Phoinikios3 join
the foot of Helicon ; and the latter divides the plain of Kopais from
that of Thebes. At the western foot of Phoinikios are the ruins of
1 Nat. Hist. b. 16. c. 36. - Or Anemoleia.
3 Called Qimof by Hesiod and Plutarch, ~2#iKnov by Lykophron, l^iyywv by Palaephatus,
$»wjov by Apollodorus, <tW(aoS by Strabo, and the Mountain of the Sphinx by Pausanias.
found at O^eia, Ku^ny, which was at the mouth of the Cephissos,
near which there was a fertile plain called Iickm. To the north of Oxeia
Kampe was a place called Boyfytx. It is difficult to know whether
Theophrastus, by the word ro-rvoq, alluded to towns or villages, or
merely to parts of the plain, which bore the names in question.
Pliny1 mentions six kinds of Orchomenian calami; the characia,
the plotia, the auleticon, the donax, the zeugitae, and bombyciee,
which aYe the x<*PXK'xs> wXww^tj uvXtitikos, tova.%, ievyiTVjq, and £op[2u)ttotg
of Theophrastus.
During the more prosperous days of Greece, when the arts
flourished, and opulence was generally diffused, this vale must have
been strikingly interesting, by the assemblage of natural and arti-
ficial beauties which it displayed. Surrounded by sublime moun-
tains or varied hills, and fertilized by numerous streams, it was then
adorned by wealthy cities and independent communities, where
admiration was excited, or piety kindled, by the sight of accumu-
lated temples ; of groves and fountains, animated by a multiplicity
of presiding deities; of caverns where oracles were delivered, or
the mysteries of futurity developed ; and where all the embellish-
ments of a fanciful, but elegant superstition, were scattered over the
enchanted ground.
The plain is closed, towards Phocis, by Parnassos; and the
chain which, branching from it towards Libethrion and Helicon, is
ornamented with the ruins of Daulis, Panopeus, Anemoria,2 or
Hyampolis, Chajroneia, and Lebadeia. Further to the s. e. to-
wards the body of Helicon, are the remains of Tilphousion, Koro-
neia, Alalkomenai, and Haliartos. Helicon separates the plain from
that of Thespeia. Mount Tilphousion and Mount Phoinikios3 join
the foot of Helicon ; and the latter divides the plain of Kopais from
that of Thebes. At the western foot of Phoinikios are the ruins of
1 Nat. Hist. b. 16. c. 36. - Or Anemoleia.
3 Called Qimof by Hesiod and Plutarch, ~2#iKnov by Lykophron, l^iyywv by Palaephatus,
$»wjov by Apollodorus, <tW(aoS by Strabo, and the Mountain of the Sphinx by Pausanias.