9.24.1 On the straight road from Acraephnium to the Cephisian, or as it is also called, the Copaic Lake, is what is styled the Athamantian Plain, on which, they say, Athamas made his home. Into the lake flows the river Kephisos, which rises at Lilaea in Phokis, and on sailing across it you come to Copae, a town lying on the shore of the lake. Homer^* mentions it in the Catalogue. Here is a sanctuary of Demeter, one of Dionysus and a third of Serapis.

9.24.2 According to the Boeotians there were once other inhabited towns near the lake, Athens and Eleusis, but there occurred a flood one winter which destroyed them. The fish of the Cephisian Lake are in general no different from those of other lakes, but the eels there are of great size and very pleasant to the palate.

9.24.3 On the left of Copae about twelve stadium-lengths from it is Olmones, and some seven stadium-lengths distant from Olmones is Hyettos both right from their foundation to the present day have been villages. In my view Hyettos, as well as the Athamantian plain, belongs to the district of Orkhomenos. All the stories I heard about Hyettos the Argive and Olmus, the son of Sisyphus, I shall include in my write-up [sungraphē] about Orkhomenos.^* In Olmones they did not show me anything that was in the least worth seeing, but in Hyettos is a temple of Hēraklēs, from whom the sick may get cures. There is an image not carefully carved, but of unfinished stone after the ancient fashion.

9.24.4 About twenty stadium-lengths away from Hyettos is Cyrtones. The ancient name of the town was, they say, Cyrtone. It is built on a high mountain, and here are a temple and grove of Apollo. There are also standing images of Apollo and Artemis. There is here too a cool stream of water rising from a rock. By the spring is a sanctuary of the nymphs, and a small grove, in which all the trees alike are cultivated.

9.24.5 Going out of Cyrtones, as you cross the mountain you come to Corseia, under which is a grove of trees that are not cultivated, being mostly evergreen oaks. A small image of Hermes stands in the open part of the grove. This is distant from Corseia about half a stadium-length. On descending to the level you reach a river called the Platanios, which flows into the sea. On the right of the river the last of the Boeotians in this part dwell in Halae-on-Sea, which separates the mainland of Lokris from Euboea.