Eleufis is reckoned about four hours from Athens. In the
Antonine Itinerary the diftance is thirteen miles.
T h e Jacred way was one o f the roads which branched off
without the gate called Dipyloh. On it was the pillar of Ari-
themocritus j and beyond* a tomb; and a place called Sciram
from Scirus a prophet of Dodona, who was buried there by
the torrent-bed. A monument ftood near it. Farther oh were
two j with the facred portion of the hero Lacias, the town
called Laciadas, a monument, an altar o f Zephyras, and; a
temple of Ceres and her daughter, with whom Minerva and
Neptune were jointly worlhipped. Here Phy talus, it was fetch
received the goddefs into his houfe, who requited him, as the
infcription on his tomb teftified, by dkeovering to him the culture
ofthefig*. Thejsroceffion refled at the facnedfig-tree. on its return
to Athens. Nearer the Cephiflus was a-monument s and* oh‘the
bank* a ftatue ©f I u woman * and o f her fon cutting bflf -his tiafr
in honour o f the rivere« 'Beyond the Cephiflus was the altar of
ibe mid Jupiter, at winch Thefeur was purified r witb-two
tondbste «By ithe^road was a fmplf temple of Cyamiees W fife
beatl-gfGe&: iSShissdwa®. an epithet ©fiBacehus,. .hu&Taufelfal
was utroeftain #hethet^he wasintenctedlbr fomO -hfero/for the
invention o f beans, from which the myftae were directed 'to
abftain,swas not to; cbeaeffeited to Ceres. He adds, ^*‘ rW^o-
etcr has heen. initiated at Eleiifls f o r has read the OrpLica
.t^ikqowsL what I mean.”e^The monumenti o f a Rbodfem^wil
remarkable for its. magnitude and beauty i as sdfof®he eroded
Harpalus the Macedonian for a courtezan, whom he tttarriid^t
Athens. This portion of xhtejacredway, k is believed, extended
to the mouatams which bound the pMn o f A<fben«; towUM
Eleufis. iuTbe«prefe«t road *s i»@ai4y in the famedi re&ion, leading
to the «live-groves .and the CepbMlis;- roj&ftdad
fepulchres, altars, and temples, now occur Solitary ^churches;
and a few traces firggefting- unfat isfeiftory eonjeSlupe. The
Ctophiffus. was formidable as a torrent-, t A bridge was etedfced»
that Iacchus might pafs without delay. An epigram Which
. was
m i inferibed bn' it is, p r e f « 1 W É S * • name of
It is an addrefs to «ho myft*, bidding them
tempte-bf Cetes, without fear ó f Wintry floods, for Xe“ ° * s “
Linda* a'city - of Rhodes* had provided for their fafety m
pafling the broad, ftream. Iftjw feme ( * • remaining not far
from the place whore, travellers crpfs.'
T ' A g A-p. ip the .mountains beyqnd tho< river,, vifible from
Athens,Tjfeparates~iEgaleos on the left hand from Parnes on the
right: Theentranceon fhp road through i t was t e r m e ^ ^ ^
Aboutmid-way to Eleufis in the mountain k a raonaftery called
Daphne . Farther on is ;a, h e a r of f * » and P ^ o f i m *#M
of. the mafbnry.termed the Incertmwi the remnants of a tem-
V e n u s ^ a f o a .waR^PStugh-ftones.m.the front-mentioned
by Paufanias as .worth feeing. The rock on the right
hand is cut down perpendicularly, with grooves as for the
reception, of tablets, and perhaps was that called Pmci.lon or tte
painted. At the foot Hes a marble fragment or two; we fup-
S e d , o f an alcove. On the way to that temple was antiently
one of Apollo, :in which was placed a ftatue o f Ceres, o f Pro-
ferpine, and of Minerva. Riding on to ^ end oFuhe gap,
you have the fea, ihe.Thriafian plain, and Eleufis m view.
‘ T he monaftery- bf Daphne is a mean and barbarous edifice,
Inclofed within ,a high wall. Before the gate is a. well of
excellent water. The church is large and lofty, and reputed
the mo ft antient in Attica.; Theinfide o f the domeis adorned
with a figure o f Chrift in Mofaic, much injured. In one of
the ch a pX is?lmarble fercophagus. The Tmks are frequefft
and unwelcome vifitanfs in their way to and. from the Morea.
The corfairs formerly infefted it from the fea, and it was aimoft
deferted. 11 found there a prieft with a monk or two. It probably
occupies the fite of the temple o f AppIK^
ing columns are immured in a wall by the church s an m
court is a long'ftone with a Latin inferiptibn, whrch records thè
confecration of ‘femething, it is likeljr of the temple, J>y the
g jj emperors