ABE, "Αβας, in Ancient Geography, a town of Phocis near the frontiers of the Opuntians Locrians famous for an ancient oracle of Apollo, and the treasures of its temple, which was plundered and burnt by the Persians, B.C. 480; and again by the Boeotians, B.C. 346. Hadrian built a smaller temple near the site of the former one. The ruins of Abe may still be traced on the S.W. side of a peaked hill to the west of Exarkhō. (See Leake's Northern Greece; Gell's Itinerary.)