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On the return of this answer, the Thessalians, full of wrath against
the Phocians, offered themselves as guides to the barbarian army, and
led them forth from Trachinia into Doris. In this place there is a
narrow tongue of Dorian territory, not more than thirty furlongs
across, interposed between Malis and Phocis; it is the tract in
ancient times called Dryopis; and the land, of which it is a part,
is the mother-country of the Dorians in the Peloponnese. This
territory the barbarians did not plunder, for the inhabitants had
espoused their side; and besides, the Thessalians wished that they
should be spared.
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