(Demosthenes, Strabo, Pausanias); a country of Greece, contained between Boeotia to the east, and Locris to the west, but extending formerly from the Sinus Corinthiacus on the south, to the sea of Euboea on the north, and, according to Dionysius, as far as Thermopylae; but reduced afterwards to narrower bounds. Phocenses the people; Phocicus, the epithet, (Justin); Bellum Phocicum, the sacred war which the Thebans and Philip of Macedon carried on against them for plundering the temple at Delphi; and by which Philip paved the way to the sovereignty of all Greece, (Julian.)