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The Teneric plain has its name from Tenerus. According to mythology, he was the son of Apollo and Melia, and declared the answers of the oracle at the mountain Ptoum,391 which, the same poet says, had three peaks:
“At one time he occupied the caves of the three-headed Ptoum;”
and he calls Tenerus
“the prophet, dwelling in the temple, and having the same name as the soil on which it stands.”
The Ptoum is situated above the Teneric plain, and the lake Copaïs, near Acræphium.
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Both the oracle and the mountain belonged to the Thebans.
Acræphium392 itself is situated upon a height. This, it is said, is the place called Arnē by the poet, having the same name as the Thessalian Arnē.
