. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. he cliffs the ground slopesoff in a double ridge toward the maritime plain, and in a semicircularrecess on this slope the town was placecl. Between the peaks, thesouthern of which was sometimes called Hyampea ^k), there is a deepfissure, down which a torrent pours in rainy weather, receiving near ^ These peaks were sometimes supposed to be the summits of Parnassusitself :— Mons ibi verticibus petit arduus castra duobus, Nomine Parnassus, superatque cacumine nubes.—Ov. Jlef. i. 316. ^ 2e 5 vTrep
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. he cliffs the ground slopesoff in a double ridge toward the maritime plain, and in a semicircularrecess on this slope the town was placecl. Between the peaks, thesouthern of which was sometimes called Hyampea ^k), there is a deepfissure, down which a torrent pours in rainy weather, receiving near ^ These peaks were sometimes supposed to be the summits of Parnassusitself :— Mons ibi verticibus petit arduus castra duobus, Nomine Parnassus, superatque cacumine nubes.—Ov. Jlef. i. 316. ^ 2e 5 vTrep StAd(/)Ov TreVpagSrepov// oTTcoTre ktyvvg, ev-6a Ktopv/ctat Nu/x(/) Ba/cxtSe?,KacrraAiag re vaixa. SOPH. Ant. 1126. 390 PHOCIS. Book IV. the base of the cliff the waters of the celebrated fountain of Castalia(l), in which visitors to Delphi purified themselves^ and whose waterswere in a later age supposed to communicate poetic inspiration.^ Onthe uplands between the Phsedriades and the central mass of Parnassus,about seven miles from Delphi^ was the Corycian cave^^ in which the. ]\Iouth of the Coiyciau Cave. (From a Sketch by Sir Gardner Wilkinson.) Delphians took refuge in the Persian War : the main chamber is 200feet long, and 40 high. The greater portion of Delphi stood W. of thestream, though the walls of Philomelus (a a) enclosed a certain amountof ground on the E. of it. In the former direction was the sacred AAA, 5) ot,8ov AeA(f)ol ;;,To,? KacrraAta? ap^upoetSetgBatVere StVa?- ;; 5e Spocrot?W^v^pava-fxevoi, crreCx^Te vaov 5e uvfji(f>a<;, evOa Kcopu/ct? ], <f)L\opvL<;, 8aLi
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