e Medes. When the Thessalians proposed this, they said
that they would not give the money, and that it was open to them to take
the Median side just as much as the Thessalians, if they desired it for
other reasons; but they would not with their own will be traitors to
Hellas.

31. When these words were reported, then the Thessalians, moved with
anger against the Phokians, became guides to the Barbarian to show him
the way: and from the land of Trachis they entered Doris; for a narrow
strip 21 of the Dorian territory extends this way, about thirty furlongs
in breadth, lying between Malis and Phokis, the region which was in
ancient time called Dryopis; this land is the mother-country of the
Dorians in Peloponnese. Now the Barbarians did not lay waste this land
of Doris when they entered it, for the people of it were taking the side
of the Medes, and also the Thessalians did not desire it.

32. When however from Doris they entered Phokis, they did not indeed
capture the Phokians themselves; for some of them had gone up to the
heights of Parnassos,--and that summit of Parnassos is very convenient to
receive a large number, which lies by itself near the city of Neon, the
name of it being Tithorea,--to this, I say, some of them had carried up
their goods and gone up themselves; but most of them had conveyed their
goods out to the Ozolian Locrians, to the city of Amphissa, which is
situated above the Crissaian plain. The Barbarians however overran the
whole land of Phokis, for so the Thessalians led their army, and all
that they came to as they marched they burned or cut down, and delivered
to the flames both the cities and the temples:

33, for they laid everything waste, proceeding this way by the river
Kephisos, and they destroyed the city of Drymos by fire, and also
the following, namely Charadra, Erochos, Tethronion, Amphikaia, Neon,
Pedieis, Triteis, Elateia, Hyampolis, Parapotamioi and Abai, at which
last-named place there was a temple of Apollo, wealthy and furnished
with treasuries and votive offerings in abundance; and there was then,
as there is even now, the seat of an Oracle there: this temple they
plundered and burnt. Some also of the Phokians they pursued and captured
upon the mountains, and some women they did to death by repeated
outrage.

34. Passing by Parapotamioi the Barbarians came to Panopeus, and from
this point onwards their army was separated and went different ways. The
largest and strongest part