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πρώτη ... Ἀντικύρη. Lamia is in Achaia. Anticyra (to be distinguished from the better known Phocian city on the gulf of Corinth) was apparently at the place where the road crossed the Spercheius, but not at the mouth, the muddy marshy shore being unfit for habitation.

ἐξ Ἐνιήνων: cf. 132. 1 n. H. here gives us a route-map from the point of view of a traveller from Achaia (cf. ch. 176 n.; Grundy, 280), but we cannot test its accuracy as the coast-line and the courses of the rivers have changed since his day. The Dyras must be identified (Leake, Northern Greece, ii. 25. 6) with the Gourgopotamo, and the Melas with the Mavra Neria (Black water). Now the two streams join in the middle of the plain and together fall into the Spercheius. In ancient times they were 2 1/2 miles apart where the road, which must have made a wide détour to avoid the swamps at the head of the gulf, crossed them (Grundy, p. 281).

καιομένῳ. Heracles was burnt to death on a pyre on Mount Oeta; cf. ch. 176. 3 n.

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