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was at length concluded, we obtained the connivance of the-
Difdar, his brother, under an - injunction of privacy# as other-
wife the removal of the done might endanger his head, it being'
the property of the Grand Signibr. Muitapha delivered a ring,,
which he commonly wore, to be fhown to a female black Have,
who was left in the houfe alone, as a tokenj and; our Swifs#
with afiiftants and two horfes, one reputed the flrongeft in.
Athens, arrived at the hour appointed, and brought down the
two marbles, for which he was fent, unobferved j the Turks
being at their devotions in the mofque, except the guard at the
gate, who was in the feeret. The large flab was afterwards*
rendered more portable by a mafon. We faw many other in-
fcribed marbles, betides thefe}. fome fixed in the walls# or ia
the pavement o f the portico o f the mofque 5 fome in the floors,
and flairs of the houfes j or lying in the courts, and among
rubbifh ; all which we were permitted to copythe Turks even
prying into comers, and discovering feveral,. which. th?y had
often pafled before without notice..
C H A T . XII.
Front o f the hiWof the-acropolis— Hhe cave ef'A p o lbw d Fan
A fountain and Jlatue---T’he: pelafgicmi andy J&tfg,t W$k4<rt>* An
infcription.-—T!he theatre ofBacchus — T’he Athenians fond o f
gladiators— A grotto and xboragic nionimentr--$Ciig Odeum o f
Pericles and A tticus Her odes.
T H E rock o f the acropolis ipreads in front,; doping down
from before the propylea and out-worksy and is covered with
Turkith fepulchres and grave-ftones; among which Hands a
fmall mofque. A t the foot is a deep harrow vale, with-a road leading
through, between the hill' and Lycabettus or the. mountain,
which lies before it. On one fide, the burying-grounds are
bounded by a bare craggy rock, with a track pafiing over it
toward
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*bwM~the temple, of/Thefeus. We /ball-.leave this, which
was the‘hill o f the areopagus, on the left hand, and defcpnd by
the way moft frequented j intending to furvey the out-fide of
die- acrOpolis, keeping it on the right, until we have completed
thecircuit.
M AND flfft,f below the right wing o f the propylea or the
temple of Vi&ory, is a cave, once facred to Apollo and Pan. It
'appears to have been adorned with votive tablets; and before it
aré föihè maffes o f brick-wall, remnants of .a church, founded,
i t is' probable, on ‘ the removal of ttheir altars, to inffilt them,
Uml -ïdJ|>i%véht their> Votaries from cherishing a fuperftitious
^veneration1 ftf^the fpot. Apollo, one o f its owners, deferved,
inftead of worthipj’ to; have been tried and condemned for a
rape,1 wHfeh,0 it was believed ho committed in this cave o,n
‘Crèufai daughter of Ere&heus, ■ who expöfed in it afterwards
«the child, Ibriv from whom the Ionians of Europe and Afia
were - named. As to Pan,' it is related, that on the landing o f
•the Medes at Marathon, Phidippides, being fent to fummon the
"Lacedaemonians, was met by him in Arcadia, when he declared
«an affeftion for the Athenians, and promife,d to be their ally.
A temjfie, on mount Parthenius near Tegea, remaining in the
Tecond century# Was ereéted, they affirmed, on the very place-of
THë interview.1 He was believed to have attended at-Marathon, and,
have contributed largely to the victory, -by ftriking the enemy
'with the fpecies o f - terror ftbm him called Panics - '•Miltiades
re warded him with a fiatue, and on- the pedeftal was an infcrip-
tiShi1 which is preférvèd among the epigrams afcribed to Simonides.
Moreover, he Was inferied in the catalogue of Athenian
''divinities!’• The goat-footed god quitted h ii habitation bn :the
mountain, and# according to Lucian, fettled at Athens, living in
the cave under the acropolis# a little beneath the pelafgic wall j
where, the peqple ftill continued to affemble two or three times
a year, ‘to facrifice a 'hè-go.at tb himj to feaft and*be merry.