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KNIMIDA (Mountain) LOKRIDA
Cnemis (Knemis), a range of mountains forming the boundary between
Phocis and the Epicnemidii Locri, who received their distinguishing name from
this mountain. Mount Cnemis was a continuation of Callidromus, with which it was
connected by a ridge, at the foot of which is the modern town of Pundonitza. (Strab.
ix. pp. 416, 425; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. pp. 66, 180.) A spur of this
mountain, running out into the sea, formed the promontory Cnemides (Knemides),
opposite the islands called Lichades and the Euboean promontory Cenaeum. Upon
this promontory stood a fortress, also called Cnemides, distant 20 stadia from
Thronium. It was near the modern Nikoraki. (Strab. ix. p. 426; Ptol. iii. 15.
§ 10; Mela, ii. 3. § 67 called Cnemis by Scylax, p. 23, and Plin. iv. 7. s. 12;
comp. Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 177.)
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