portico, and a fountain remarkable for its roof and decorations.
The bath of iE&tflapias was one o f the benefadtions of Antoninus
Pius, while a Roman Senator j as was alfo a houfe for the
reception o f pregnant women and dying perfons, who before
were removed oat Of the inclofure, to be.delivered or to expire
in the open stir. The remains are heaps Of ftones, pieces of
briek waM, and feattered fragments of marble j betides fofeae
churches or rather piles of rubbilh mif-called, being deftitute
of doors, roofs, or any kind of ornament.
T he ftatue o f rEfcUkpius was half as big as that o f Jsupiter
Olympius at Athens* It was made -of «ivory and gold, and, as
the inscription proved, by Thrafymedes Son -of Arignottus erf
Paros. • Sfe was 'reprefented fittings bolding his ftaff, with
one hand On 'the head o f a ferpent, and a -dog lying by
him. Two Argive heroes, Bellerophon combating with the
monfter Chimera and Perfeus fevering the head of Miedufa,
were carved on the throne. Many tablets deferibed the cures
performed by the deity, yet he had not efeaped contumely and
robbery. Dionyfius deprived him of his golden beard, affirming
it was very unfeemfyin him to appear in that manner when
his father Apollo was always feen with his face finooth. ' Sylla
amaffed the pcetious offerings belonging to. him and to Apollo
and. Jupiter at TDelpfii and 'Olympia, m pay ’his army before
Athens. The marks in the walls tdftified that a great number
had been plucked down. A few fragments' o f white mafble
excjuifitely carved occur in. the heap of the .temple,
T hjs, ‘inelbTure of the temple once abounded.in inlcriptions.
In the fecohd century Bx marbles remained, on wliidh were written
in'the Tforic Hfaledt the names, of men and women. Who had
been patibnts of the god, with the dlftemper eadh.had "laboured
under ariH-tbe femedi'es'he had directed. Wefound oiily a couple
of vdtlve’inferiptiohSj.an'd tWQpe'&eftals df ilatues, .one Of whidh
reprefefitecl a Roman and was erected by the city of the Epir-
daurians. ‘The ’divine prefcfiptions'have perilhed or are buried
in
Jn the tuin, ferit a fpeciffien is extant1 from fimilar records,
once preferved in hfS . temple in the ifle o f Tiber near ROffie.
The complaint was'Lpiéihg of blood, and the perfon deemed
incurable; but iEfctdapius prevailed. Hé was reftored, and
returned thanks publicly before the people.
' T « e ; Stadium was near the temple. It Was of earth, as
moft in Greece were. At the upper end are feats of Bone, but
thefe Were continued along the fides only a few yards. A
vaulted paflage leading underneath into the area, now choked
up, was- a private way by which the Agonothetae or prefidents
With the priefts and perfons of diftin&ibn entered.
TwÖ large ciftetlis or refervohs remain, made by Antoninus
for the reception of rain-water. One meafured ninety nine feet
léhg; and thirty feven wide."' Beyond them ' a dry water-
CÖurfej and in the mountain-lfide oh the right-hand ate the
marble feats df ; the Theatre,.' overgrown with bti&es. We
regretted that the Profceninm or -front was vanifhed, as this
fabric alfo was the work of PolycletuS and much admired. The
Rbman theatres, as Paufanias obferves, far exceeded all in ornament,
and in fize that of Megalopolis in Arcadia j but, he Tub-
joins, what architedt c a n - cothpaie with Polyélefus iff har-
mbfty and beauty ?
G öI nö up the water-Cöurfè, between the mountains, is a
church, where, befides fragments, wë found a ffiort infeription.
it Diogenes the hierophant to far-darting Apollo, on account
<t of a vifiori in his Beep.” Apollo had a temple on mount
Cynortium, probably on this fpotj arid oh a fommit beyond are
other traces, it is likely, of a temple o f Diana.
T he fprings and wells by the ruins are now foppofed to
poflëfs many excellent properties' To thefe and a good air,
t See Comment on Strabo, p. 164. or Gruter Infcripf. p. 7*
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