Histories

but most of them made their way out of the country to the Ozolian Locrians, where the town of +Amphissa [22.3833,38.525] (Perseus) Amphissa lies above the Crisaean plain. The barbarians, while the Thessalians so guided their army, overran the whole of +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis. All that came within their power they laid waste to and burnt, setting fire to towns and temples.

Marching this way down the river Cephisus, they ravaged everything that lay in their way, burning the towns of Drymus, +Charadra [20.9917,39.1667] (Perseus) Charadra, Erochus, Tethronium, Amphicaea, Neon, Pediea, Tritea, Elatea, +Hyampolis [22.9,38.6] (Perseus) Hyampolis, Parapotamii, and Abai [22.9583,38.5917] (Perseus)Abae, where there was a richly endowed temple of Apollo, provided with wealth of treasure and offerings. There was also then as now a place of divination at this place. This temple, too, they plundered and burnt, and they pursued and caught some of the Phocians near the mountains. Certain women too perished because of the multitude of their violators.