US J and was followed, by a| capuchin-friar, then redding in
the French convent at Athens. We werei detained . until the
fun was on the^decline, whea'wefef forward, mounted! omaflte
or on horfes laden with our baggage. •
Pausani a s deferibes two ways from.the ports to Athens.
By the road from Phalerum was a temple and ftatuei>of„Jijpo,
the building half-burned, and without a door or roof j 'remaining,
with a temple o f Ceres by the port, un repaired,yds a; memorial
o f the enmity of the barbarians under. Mardonius. By, the
entrance o f the city was a tomb o f the Amazon Antiope. .On
the other road, which led from the Piraeus, were ruins, of the
walls erected -by Gonoii- •, with lepulchral monumentsg^among
which, thole of Menander and Euripides were theimoft noted.
That of thé latter,poet was a cenotaph ü f mound of earth without
his albes. By the city-gate was the feptdehre o f a foldier,
who. was reprefented Handing near hia: hdrfej. the fculpturWby
Praxiteles. ...The .ineléfnrgs, . which;!»©# intervene^ may j have
occafioned fome fmall alteration in thé'icioufcfe thé two
roads. * They were nearly in the; fame direction,- and/not
far afunder.
A f ^ r palling the .fite of the. theatre and the termination
o f the rocky peninfula, we had on the right hand a level-fpot
covered with Hones, where, it is probable, was the remoter agora
of the Pirasus. Farther on by.tbe road*lidei$ a clear area within
a low mound, f 9^ » d ;perhaps.'by epn#eale4Euhhilh,df the walls
o f the temple of Juno. We then entered among vineyards and
cottomgrounds, with groves of olive-trees. Op -'éne fide rifes
a large barrow, it is likely, the cenotaph of Euripidls.* In'a'tree
was la kind of. couch,-Iheltered with boughsj Bêlönging tó a man
employed tó Watch there during the vintage] - The féul weather
we experienced at fea had extended ; to: Attica, where heavy
ihowers had fallen, with terrible thunder and lightning*“'flooding
the land, and doing much damage. An Albanian peafant. was
expecting the return o f the archo'n, who was one of the annual
magiftrates