T R A V E L S i s G R E E C E .
(^tavtsofo Ptfru, >of Sfavrominu-PetrupSt. Ptter’&CfucifkcidHi
It was of white’ marble, and the floor Mctfaic: The fite is now
oefcupidl by the church menribfied ’ as > on ©ur k ft conning from;
the Radium,; a recent -aifd ''tfcfeaa'Rffudtare,!' withfragmentsutrf •
columns and marble®lying ifi-and-about it. The MofaicpavemenC
was - ordinary; much^ 'brbkenviai^i8 covered with dirt,- fwarm*
ing, as;- we experienced, with large fleas. A fkull or two - and
fome human bones were feattered on it., We found thbrfe jant
Ionic capital with marks- of the compaRes ufed in forming the
Yolute.
Ben e a th the Eleulinium, in a rocky:dell, is afinall church
with fome buildings, and trees, and veiHges..jof the fountain
Callirhoe, or, as'it was Called after Pififtratas had 'furnifhed it?
with nine pipes, Bnneacrunus. This was withouti the )ga|e -of
Diochares, and nearthe Lyceum ; the water copious}»clear,;.- and
fit to-drittki n’The'current is now conveyed intfeitfee:town>'
and only the holes, at which- it iffued into thee ciftero» remain.
Thefe are in the rocky bank next to the'- temple of
Olympiusf which is in the way to'the gate dividing theicitiesief
Thefe us and Hadrian, ahd hot remote. ,Atg a Kttle-uliRances
is a modern ruinous^fountain.
In dne o f the dialogues o f Plato, Socrates is represented, as
meeting Phaedrus, who was going from a houfe by the temple
o f Jupiter Olympius toward the Lyceum, which was without
the city. PerceiYing, as they walked, that, he had a/book in his.
left hand, under his garment, Socrates propofed turning out of
the road, and fitting down by the IlifTus. Phaedrus confents*.-
pointing to a lofty plane-tree as a proper place ; and' dhf^ving;/
that as both had their-feet naked, i f would not be difkgreeable.
to wet them, efpecially. at that time o f the year and day. u The-
cohverfatibn changes to' a local Rory, that Boreas hau Carried oif
Orithyia, daughter of Eredlheus, as fhe wasTporting by1 the,
I li^ j^ flo t by the fountain, hut two dr titfefe RadfaloWef'ddWh; 1
where Was the cfoffing'ove^ to go to the temple of Diana A .g&a, 1
and
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and where was the altar of Boreas. On their arrival at the,
chofea rfpot, -Söcrates admires it, like a Rranger on one rarely
Rirring-out o f the city into the hilly country rbund about, r H e
praifes the latge and -tall tree;. the thicket o f Agnus CaRus,
bigband lhady, then in full flower and fragrant; thecool delicious'fountain
running near,with thegirls-foyit, and the images/
which made it feem a temple of the Nymphs and Achelous ; the
gratefoL and* fweet air :the flirill fommer-chorus - of rfocuRs j i
and- the elegance of verdure, prepared as i t were to meet, the r#s?
dining head.
T*rfe -Yioihity of - EnneaerunésR a s r f o deferv© -encomiums
like 'thofe beftowed on- it by S@ferat©S;> fince it has/
been deprivedw,of the-1waft© water,fgg|.the;.fountain,* which
ctóeöywnöuiifhBd the*hefbage and the.plane-street The-marble-*
ftoing and -the inqageajare removedand »th^ph^nis now dry,
except» af»£ooè*ftt theToot o£-vthe roek* «d»wadWhid*the Iliffus-
commonly -tricklesin - The water, which overflows after rain,- is
ufedcby? aiKim«i si jaBiér i sr^Épesn&i The* eharcbinstbhf
dell ? occupies,it ds/probable, the Rt© of the dtar,af vJ:hfehfuf^
t o , w&omy‘amongjhther deities, theMpilTos, WasIfaeiecbii On©
lower down Rands perhaps where Boneas had an. altar./i This
Gqd/ was believed to have affifled the Athenians in the Perfian
war, h&ftd was tók that account hofloured, withvö temple. - By^the
IliffusiiJodrus was flain. m
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Monymeni-of:, PhilepqppuSfpr
eminence
FOL LOW IN G, the courfe. of the Iliflus frofp:Enneacrunus
you,j haye^the theatre ofi-Bacch^s, and .the* difiance
on, tlj.esrighj: hand.^ The intermediate plain, yvhich rOfSde part
of within *j?fv
feattered