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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,
the son of great-hearted Naubolus,
commanded Phoceans—men from Cyparissus,
rocky Pytho, holy Crisa, Daulis, and Panopeus;
men from Anemorea and Hyampolis;
from around the sacred river Cephissus,
from Lilaea, beside Cephissus' springs.
Homer Iliad Book 2
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.
Lilaea is a winter day's journey distant from Delphi; we estimated the length of the road, which goes across and down Parnassus, to be one hundred and eighty stades. Even after their city had been restored, its inhabitants were fated to suffer a second disaster at the hands of the Macedonians. Besieged by Philip, the son of Demetrius, they made terms and surrendered, and a garrison was brought into the city, until a native of the city, whose name was Patron, united against the garrison those of the citizens who were of military age, conquered the Macedonians in battle, and forced them to withdraw under a truce. In return for this good deed the Lilaeans dedicated his statue at Delphi.
Pausanias Description of Greece Book 10, ch. 33
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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