. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. Orchomenus was strongly posted on a hill over-looking the marshes ofthe Copaic Lake, theCephissus ^winding likea serpent ^ about thebase on the S. and E.,while the small riverMelas washes its north-ern side. The wallsCoin of Orchomenus. extended to a distance of two miles in cir-cumference : the most remarkable object in the town was the Treasuryof Atreus, the ruins of which still remain. Orchomenus was at one period the first, and after the rise of Thebes con-tinued to be the secondcity in Boe
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. Orchomenus was strongly posted on a hill over-looking the marshes ofthe Copaic Lake, theCephissus ^winding likea serpent ^ about thebase on the S. and E.,while the small riverMelas washes its north-ern side. The wallsCoin of Orchomenus. extended to a distance of two miles in cir-cumference : the most remarkable object in the town was the Treasuryof Atreus, the ruins of which still remain. Orchomenus was at one period the first, and after the rise of Thebes con-tinued to be the secondcity in Boeotia, owing itswealth to the rich allu-vial plain on which itstood. It was, in theHomeric age, famed forits treasures,^ and wasthe seat of the powerfulraces of the Minyse ^ andthe Phlegy?e. It tookthe patriotic side in thePersian War, was onfriendly terms withThebes during the Pelo-ponnesian War, butafterwards joined theSpartans, and sufieredutter destruction at thehands of the Thebans, o68. It was after-wards rebuilt, again de-stroyed by the Thebans,in 346, and restoredby the Macedonians,. Plan of Orchomenus. A A. The Mount Acropolis. BB. The Treasury of Minyas. Kat re Opvo/u-ejov elcrt SpaKoov cj?.—Hestod. ap Stral). is., p. -J24. 5 Ol6 oct e? OpxofJievov ov5 ocra QrjBasAL-yu~Tta9, q9l —^elcrra 56|aot? h K-njiJ-ara /cetrat. IJ. ix. 381. 6 Os TTor ii Op\oix€i(^ Munj-qLco tot aracraei, Od. si. 2S3. 7 ^I^e? 6 is ^/^eyvijov ai8pCov TroAti v^pi-j-rdcov,Ot Atb? ovK aAeyovres errl ;(^^ojl vaLe-da-jKOV Ev KoXrj ^Tjcrcnj, KTjc^tcrtSo? iyyvdi Aiu;-,79.—HOM, H>/mn. in ApoU. 275 Chap. XX. TOWNS. 401 but it never afterwards flourished. Lebadea, Livadlda, was situatednear the -western border, with its acropolis on a spur of Helicon, bywhose base the Hercyna flowed. It owed its importance to the pos-session of the oracle of Trophonius which was delivered from a cavein tlie rock. Lebadea was taken a
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