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CHAP. I
J
DELIUM.
There is indeed a tumulus on its shore, which
might be considered an interesting relic of Delium2,
and of its field of battle; if there were better evidence
than there is of its coincidence with that city. But
to the site which Delium occupied another village has
succeeded, similar to Delium in name. There can be
no doubt that AijXiai now covers the spot, which
has been rendered famous by the intrepidity of Socrates,
and the misfortunes of his country. Delisi is about
seven miles from Oropd, the site of the ancient Oropus.
It stands a little to the right of the road on a rising
ground, which shelves down into the plain. The road
soon divides into two branches; the path on the right
hand, which we now pursue, leading over the shrubby
hills to Oropus, that on the left skirting the sea-
shore, and crossing the river Asopus at its entrance
to the sea.
The site of Delisi has many advantages. It stands
on the southern verge of the flat strip of land which
fringes the sea from the Euripus, and now converges
to a narrow margin running on southward from Delisi
along the shore. It therefore commanded this avenue
from Attica unto Boeotia along the coast. This was
2 Delium could not have stood at Dramise': for Delium was only
five miles from Tanagra (Liv. xxxv. 51), and ten stadia from Delium
placed the Athenians just on the Oropian frontier, (fxakurra kit toU
fjieQopiois n-rjs 'Qpunrlas. Thuc. iv. 91.) Hence in Strabo's assertion,
Aifkiov AuXioos Siexov aTadiovs rpiaKovra, Delium distant from
Aulis thirty stadia, for the number X' (i.e. u') 30, should probably be
substituted p' or 100.
J
DELIUM.
There is indeed a tumulus on its shore, which
might be considered an interesting relic of Delium2,
and of its field of battle; if there were better evidence
than there is of its coincidence with that city. But
to the site which Delium occupied another village has
succeeded, similar to Delium in name. There can be
no doubt that AijXiai now covers the spot, which
has been rendered famous by the intrepidity of Socrates,
and the misfortunes of his country. Delisi is about
seven miles from Oropd, the site of the ancient Oropus.
It stands a little to the right of the road on a rising
ground, which shelves down into the plain. The road
soon divides into two branches; the path on the right
hand, which we now pursue, leading over the shrubby
hills to Oropus, that on the left skirting the sea-
shore, and crossing the river Asopus at its entrance
to the sea.
The site of Delisi has many advantages. It stands
on the southern verge of the flat strip of land which
fringes the sea from the Euripus, and now converges
to a narrow margin running on southward from Delisi
along the shore. It therefore commanded this avenue
from Attica unto Boeotia along the coast. This was
2 Delium could not have stood at Dramise': for Delium was only
five miles from Tanagra (Liv. xxxv. 51), and ten stadia from Delium
placed the Athenians just on the Oropian frontier, (fxakurra kit toU
fjieQopiois n-rjs 'Qpunrlas. Thuc. iv. 91.) Hence in Strabo's assertion,
Aifkiov AuXioos Siexov aTadiovs rpiaKovra, Delium distant from
Aulis thirty stadia, for the number X' (i.e. u') 30, should probably be
substituted p' or 100.