Phocis

American  

[foh-sis] / ˈfoʊ sɪs /

noun

1. an ancient district in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth: site of Delphic oracle.

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Phocis British  

/ ˈfəʊsɪs /

noun

1. an ancient district of central Greece, on the Gulf of Corinth: site of the Delphic oracle

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Example Sentences

Of the three Anticyras that in Phocis was the most famed for its hellebore, which, being there used combined with “sesamoides,” was, according to Pliny, taken with more safety than elsewhere.

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Pylades   A Prince of Phocis, friend to         Orestes.

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Athens was not only mistress of a maritime empire, but ruled over Megara, Boeotia, Phocis, Locris, Achaea and Troezen, i.e. over so-called allies who were strangers to the old pan-Ionian assembly and to the policy of the league, and was practically equal to Sparta on land.

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Gradually the exiled oligarchs combined; with the defeat of Tolmides at Coroneia, Boeotia was finally lost to the empire, and the loss of Phocis, Locris and Megara was the immediate sequel.

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Thessaly, Phocis, Elis, Argos and Laconia, huge tracts stood depopulated and many notable cities had sunk into ruins; Aetolia, Acarnania and Epirus never recovered from the effects of former wars and from the withdrawal of their surviving inhabitants into Nicopolis.

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