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magittrates called Epitropi or Procurators, with 4 prefent o f very
fine grapes, on which we regaled pand another, who was retiring
with his leather backet, hanging flaccid athia hack, enabled
us to get water from a well about mid-way.
B e y o n d the vineyards are the public citterns, from which
water is diipenfed to the gardens and trees below, by klire&ion
o f the owners, each paying by the hour, the price rifipg and
falling in 'proportion tOi.the. fcarcity pr abupdiiftce.,, In the
front is a weeping willow, by ..which is infer ted a marble.wrth
ah antient fepulchral inicriptipn in fair characters. Beyond the
-Citterns ds}the mohntaiftvOnce .called Lycabettus, lying before
the .Acropolis* It is bare, or .covered wfth wi ld; iiagp and
plants,- except where the.fcanty foil the plough* It
was ''formerly- in repute for. olives.: W e , faw behind the citterns
a marble ftatue, fedent * as. ,we ..fuppofc.d|>a 'e f a >philofopher. ? I t
«was funk in the ground and the}face much injmedv but,; we
were-told, had been difcovered, not many years-before, entire.
T h e road, dividing at the ..citterns, branches, through the
plain, which is open and o f a barren afpe<tt,:; T h e way to the
left, of Lycabettus, which antieatly. led to the Piraean gate, now
paffes on between the folitary temple o f Thefeus, and the naked
thill o f the .Areopagus, Iwhere the town begins. On ,;that fide
1^ alfo a track leading over Lycabettiis; We proceeded by ? the
Way to the right, bn whieh, at feme dittance from the citterns,
is an opening in the mountain, and a rocky road worn with
wheels, feparating the hill o f the. Mufeum from Lycabettus,
and once leading to the Melitenfian gate, which was before the
Acropolis.
W e kept on in the plain, and eroded the dry bed o f the
Iliflus. On our left were the door-ways ;of antient fepulchres
hewn <put,.fn the rock ^ the Mufeum, apd on it the matble
monument o f Philopappus- j and then the lofty Acropolis,
beneath which we patted. Before us was a temple ftanding on.
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