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From Doris they marched forward into Phocis; but here the
inhabitants did not fall into their power: for some of them had taken
refuge in the high grounds of Parnassus - one summit of which, called
Tithorea, standing quite by itself, not far from the city of Neon,
is well fitted to give shelter to a large body of men, and had now
received a number of the Phocians with their movables; while the
greater portion had fled to the country of the Ozolian Locrians, and
placed their goods in the city called Amphissa, which lies above the
Crissaean plain. The land of Phocis, however, was entirely
overrun, for the Thessalians led the Persian army through the whole
of it; and wherever they went, the country was wasted with fire and
sword, the cities and even the temples being wilfully set alight by the troops.
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