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Such were the doing of Xerxes in Thessaly and in Achaea, From
hence he passed on into Malis, along the shores of a bay, in which
there is an ebb and flow of the tide daily. By the side of this bay
lies a piece of flat land, in one part broad, but in another very
narrow indeed, around which runs a range of lofty hills, impossible to
climb, enclosing all Malis within them, and called the Trachinian
cliffs. The first city upon the bay, as you come from Achaea, is
Anticyra, near which the river Spercheius, flowing down from the
country of the Enianians, empties itself into the sea. About twenty
furlongs from this stream there is a second river, called the Dyras,
which is said to have appeared first to help Hercules when he was
burning. Again, at the distance of twenty furlongs, there is a
stream called the Melas, near which, within about five furlongs,
stands the city of Trachis.
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