Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

When this answer was returned to them, the Thessalians in their wrath against the Phocians began to guide the barbarian on his march. From the lands of +Trachis [22.55,38.8] (Perseus) Trachis they broke into Doris; there is a narrow tongue of Dorian land stretching that way, about thirty furlongs wide, between the Malian territory and the Phocian, which in old time was Dryopian. This region is the motherland of the Dorians of the +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese. To this Dorian territory the barbarians did no harm at their invasion, for the people took the Persian side, and the Thessalians would not have them harmed.

When they entered +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis from Doris, they could not take the Phocians themselves, for some of the Phocians ascended to the heights of +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus. The peak of +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus called +Tithorea [22.6833,38.5833] (Perseus) Tithorea, which rises by itself near the town Neon, has room enough for a multitude of people. It was there that they carried their goods and themselves ascended to it,