Crossword-Solution: AMPHICTYON 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 22

You will not think I have the remotest Reference in what I now say, jealous as I allow my self to be, to the Amphictyon of the United States of America.

Then from the river Phoinix it is a distance of fifteen furlongs to Thermopylai; and in the space between the river Phoinix and Thermopylai there is a village called Anthela, by which the river Asopos flows, and so runs out into the sea; and about this village there is a wide space in which is set up a temple dedicated to Demeter of the Amphictyons, and there are seats for the Amphictyonic councillors and a temple dedicated to Amphictyon himself.

The Iones are included in this confederacy; they could not, then, have taken their name from the Hellenic Ion, for Ion was not born at the time of Amphictyon.

Among the cites, whose deputies met at _Thermopylæ_, I do not find _Athens_, and therefore doubt whether _Amphictyon_ was King of that city.

The special surname by which Demeter and her temple at Thermopylæ was known--the temple of the hero Amphictyon which stood at its side--the word _Pyloea_, which obtained footing in the language to designate the half-yearly meeting of the deputies both at Thermopylæ and at Delphi--these indications point to Thermopylæ (the real central point for all the twelve) as the primary place of meeting, and to the Delphian half-year as something secondary and superadded.