thurius

Updated: May 29, 2025

This is a craggy height running up in a conical form to a point, called by us Orthopagus; at the foot of it is the river Morius and the temple of Apollo Thurius. The god had his surname from Thuro, mother of Chaeron, whom ancient record makes founder of Chaeronea.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans