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DAFNOUS (Ancient city) LOKRIDA
Daphnous: Eth. Daphnountios, Daphnousios. A city on the Euboean sea, originally
belonging to Phocis, which thus extended from the Corinthian gulf to the Euboean
sea. Its narrow territory separated the Locri Epicnemidii from the Locri Opuntii;
but it was afterwards assigned to the Opuntii. The town was in ruins in the time
of Strabo, who fixes its site by describing it as distant 20 stadia from Cynus
and 120 from Elateia, and as having a harbour.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A town of the Locri Opuntii, situated on the seacoast, at the mouth of a river of the same name, near the frontiers of the Epicnemidian Locri. Into the river Daphnus the body of Hesiod was thrown after his murder.
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