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Lilaea, a city in Phocis it was destroyed around 350 BC (sacred war) and after the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC and was rebuilt after these destructions. Lilae is mentioned by Homer and Pausanias. Schedius and Epistrophus, sons of Iphitus, Lilaea is a winter day's journey from Delphi : you descend by Parnassus : the distance is I conjecture about 180 stades. The people of Lilaea, when their town was restored, had a second reverse at the hand of Macedonia, for they were be sieged by Philip the son of Demetrius and capitulated upon, conditions of war, and a garrison was put into their town, till a townsman, whose name was Patron, incited the younger citizens to rise against the garrison, and overcame the Macedonians and compelled them to evacuate the town on conditions of war, And the people of Lilaea for this good service put up his statue at Delphi. There is at Lilaea a theatre and market-place and baths: there are also temples to Apollo and Artemis, whoso statues, in a standing position, are of Attic workmanship in Pentelican marble. They say the town got its name from Lilaea, who was one of the Naiades, and reputed to be the daughter of the Cephisus, which rises here, and flows at first not with a gentle current, but at mid-day especially roars like the roaring of a bull. In spring summer and autumn the air of Lilaea is salubrious, but in winter the proximity of Parnassus keeps it cold. And Philip put an end to the war, called the Phocian or the Sacred War, in the tenth year after the plunder of the temple, when Theophilus was Archon at Athens, in the first year of the 108th Olympiad, in which Polycles of Cyrene won the prize in the course. And the following Phocian towns were taken and rased to the ground, Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus, and Daulis. These towns were renowned in ancient times and not least in consequence of the lines of Homer, Pausanias Description of Greece Book 10, ch. 3
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