A Geographical And Historical Description of Ancient Greece, With a Map, And a Plan of Athens
A Geographical And Historical Description of Ancient Greece, With a Map, And a Plan of Athens
Cramer, J. A. (John Anthony), 1793-1848
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XXXIII. Cic. ad Att. XII. 23. Ammian. Marcell. XXX. " Oropus," says Dodwell, " is now called Bopo, " and contains only few and imperfect ruins. Some *^ architectural fragments in marble are dispersed ^^ about ; and the traces of the acropolis waU may " be discovered on a neighbouring hilP." Amphiaraus was said to have been swallowed upAmphiarai by the gaping earth, together with his chariot, near**™^"™' that city ; and he afterwards received divine honours from the Oropians, who erected a templ...e to him on the spot, and a statue of white marbte. (Pausan. At- tic. 34.) The Thebans, however, maintained that the event above mentioned took place in their ter- ritory, on the spot called Cnopia ; and Sophocles, who is quoted by Strabo, (IX. p. 404.) seems to favour this opinion : ^ If the reading UtipaXidiv is less attempt upon the island of rigfat» it is probable we ought Melos, sailed afterwards to O- to substitute in another pas- ropus, which could not with sage of Thucydides t^( OcipaSk^^ any truth be described as op- for 7^^ wtpeuf 7^<.>
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