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ELEFTHERES (Ancient city) ERYTHRES
When you have turned from Eleusis to Boeotia you come to the Plataean land, which
borders on Attica. Formerly Eleutherae formed the boundary on the side towards
Attica, but when it came over to the Athenians henceforth the boundary of Boeotia
was Cithaeron. The reason why the people of Eleutherae came over was not because
they were reduced by war, but because they desired to share Athenian citizenship
and hated the Thebans. In this plain is a temple of Dionysus, from which the old
wooden image was carried off to Athens. The image at Eleutherae at the present
day is a copy of the old one. A little farther on is a small cave, and beside
it is a spring of cold water. The legend about the cave is that Antiope after
her labour placed her babies into it; as to the spring, it is said that the shepherd
who found the babies washed them there for the first time, taking off their swaddling
clothes. Of Eleutherae there were still left the ruins of the wall and of the
houses. From these it is clear that the city was built a little above the plain
close to Cithaeron. (Paus.+1.38.8-9)
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