Phocis

The two young men are friends: Pylades of Phocis, and Orestes, who is thought to be dead.

In Phocis was Κυῤῥα, Currha, where Apollo Κυῤῥαιος was honoured; which names were more commonly expressed Κιῤῥα and Κιῤῥαιος.

Pausanias, speaking of a cavern in Phocis, says, that it was particularly sacred to Aphrodite.

At daybreak they reached the summit, where a thousand Greeks from Phocis had been stationed as a guard.

Sparta at that moment had a strong army under Cleombrotus, one of its two kings, in Phocis, on the frontier of Bœotia.