emperors. A'rcadius and Honorius, when Eufebius was pm**
curator o f the provint* of Achaia. Arcadius commanded that
the temples £hü>uld be deftroÿed ', and the bridges* high-ways,
aquædû<3:s, and city-walls be repaired with their materials j but
fpàred fome to be converted into churches at the requefl of
bifhops and eminent perfons.
- Pa v s à n ia s from the temple o f Venus proceeds to thé
currents called Rhiti. Thefe ’Were Breams o f “fait-Water. '** One
“ may believe, fays he-, that they flow from the EuripuS o f
“ Chaicis, falling from the land into the loWer lèa.“ They
Were facred to Ceres add Rtoferpine, and thé priées only
had the privilege fifhmJg. Beyond the Rhiti was a trâ£t
called the kingdom o f CrOeoh? with the monument -of 'Em*
moipusîj o f Hippothebb, Aom whom obè o f thé tribes Wki
named ; and « Zarex, who wàs ibid tb h a lt been ibfifrùéted îh
mufic by ApoBo. Baafaniàs %héh weritidbs th e ElebfîàhÙi
Géphiflus. This river was -more violent than thé former. , By
it Thefeus flew Rrbcrbftes -, -a-nd, as -they related, -Pluto dé-
fceflded into heil with PrOferpine. Â dood happening While thé
croperoe 'Hadrian Was at Athens, he Ordered the building Of a
bridge for paflengere.
■ W h e l e r , came to the fea-fide in lefs than half an hour
from the monaftery, and to a fmall fait lake running into the-bay
by a little dream. A town, perhaps Thria, had flood on<a h ill
to the north of k \ Boon after hé pafled another little flream.
Hé travelled over a plain, i feven .or éight miles long weftward,
and three of four broad from the fea northward. It was then, in
the month of February, béaütified with anemonies. The eaufey
.was paved with large hones. .Along it were many ruins^of
çhurçhes or temples j one with a pannel o f wall ftanding, of
grayifh Bone. The two Breams were the Rhiti, b u fh e has
called the latter the Cephiflus. The water was confined, %hen
1 In the year-of* Chrift, 39g.
I ■ A t Thria was a temple of Venus Phile erected by the flatterers of king Demetrius.,
in honour of his mother,. whofe name was Phile. -TheVplace was -callfed
Philæum. ,
I faw
m .
f faw it, by a law wall intended to make a head fufikient to
turn a mill. The Cephiffus, it is probable, was an o^afipnaV
torrent from thé mountains. Pocoeke did not obferve any rivet
in the way to Eleufis.
the pl»in beyond the | ® , ' W fcW «W» * = ^
a fmall heap of ruiai. j r 9hibty, o£,o®<» o f thé fepukbpa, feen
his hé=o oreétód r f e i n e ,« ^
A long piece »of. marble, fixed as a fide jamb^or
the door-way ,of the y S f j f f w * -
ters, and informs us, that thq loftymPO«mcnt belo^ ed to ,an
i^ o p h an t exceedingly « p o p p ed ;
intrepidity, had prefixed the fmm hpftile violence,
lÊÊÊMMÊm %ich he-had.leen h&wWP&iW1*®* Pfownhy
the people., .The hierophants^re,gp^dyj-eyered,- and Byled
djivine, and gpdrliJke. |ek
A WAY led from Eleufis into Bsebtia and the Pjat*is or
territory of Platasa. The Lacedasmohiaiis in the Pel^phpffian
war made an incurflon into Attica from this quaver at the
feafon of thé harveft. They endeavoured to reduce Opnoe on
the confines, marched to Eleufis, laid wafte the THriafian plain,
defeated a party of horfemen near the Rhiti, and proceeded,
with & g z\m on their right hand, through Ceeropia as M g as
AehamaJ, the mofl: confideEable town o f Attica and diftant
only fixty ftadia. or fevem miles and a half from Athens, which
i t fepplied with charcoal, The eity.gate toward it was called
the Aeharnenfian. After tarrying there, they deflroyed feme
towns between Barnes and Brifeffnsv and paffing by Gropds
re-entered Bceotia. The fame enemy ■ diftreffed Athens by
fortifying and keeping a garrifon in Deceleia. T h e pomp-kit
Iacchus was then tranfported to Eleufis by feaj. w i t h 'm ^
omifiions in the ceremony ; but, one year, Alcibiades reiolved
to conduct it by land. He communicated bis defigq.to the
Epmolpid^ and heralds, placed. flnetj, én .'.thp lurg
g g g fflf the priefts^ the myftaej and myftagoguis withCmmers,
and conveyed them along the facrefl way with filence and1 ftgu-
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