stiris

Updated: January 24, 2026

The posterity of Damon, of whom some still remain, mostly in Phocis, near the town of Stiris, are called Asbolomeni, that is, in the Aeolian idiom, men daubed with soot; because Damon was thus besmeared when he committed this murder.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans