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?*f\i Sion?,< and ruhbuh o f its former edifices. By the bed
be river anr tome imitcs ©f brick-work and traces of build-
with a lolitarr church founded* on a ftnall rock. Farther
: the mountainous range lying before the Acropolis, of which
portion next to the I lid us was called the Muslim, and,
find to have received its name from Mufiuus, a dilciplo
>rpheus, who, it was related, lung, and, dying of old age,
buried there. The lummit was fortified by Anti go nos and
ion Demetrius Poliorcetes ; but a imall body of the Athe-
s fucceeded in an attempt to fcale, and expelled the garrifon
[acedonians. The path o f the wall, which afeended the hill,
be teen, when the ground is free from corn and herbage.
a u s a s i a j informs us, that a monument had been
ed on the Muieum for a Syrian % but conceals his name,
art o f it is ilill extant, with inferiptions. The ruin is of
e marble, a portion o f a femicircle, the convex fide toward
Pinos®. It conlilhs o f two niches, and- on the left was a
which, it is luppoled, completed the fymmetry o f the
hmre. In the firft niche on the right is a ftatue fedent;
aaderaeadt, an inlcription in Greek, Ring Antioch us,
•a c t King Antiochus.” In the middle niche* is another
- in&rxption, “ Philopappus, ion o f Antiochus Epi-
ranes, o f Bilk.” This place was one o f the demi or towns
e tribe Antiochis, which had its name from king Antiochusi
had been a great benefactor to the Athenians. Thefe Were
inceflore o f the perfon, who, it is-probable, filled the third
~ He is recorded on a pilaiter between the two ftatues in
tin inlcription, which, it has been conjectured, was const
aa time pilafter now miffing. His name was Caius Julius
x hm Phflopappus, and he lived under Trajan. The
city o f king Antiochus were removed by Pompey td Rome,
’aMfcttsa» f . 24. See » comment on this pafflge in Daniel by the LXX.
»77a. Tlse author of the Diflertation make» Miifaeus to have
arid
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and reduced to the rank o f citizen*. The Syrian of Pw k nm ,
it is fuppofed, was this Philopappus, one o f his ddeeed&sfe'.
From the infeription it appear» that he attained to the dignity of
confol, but, as he 1» not regiftered In the confukr table», It i*
mod: likely that he was only dejigned, and did not furvlve to take
the chair. The emperor is filled In the mfeription O P T VMVS,
which title was not beftowed on hint before tbe year o f Chrlfi one
hundred and fifteen*. On the bafement beneath the pilafler h a
bold relievo reprefenting a perfon In a chariot drawn by four
holies, preceded by attendants and followed by Victory 5 the
figures as large as life. The foil beneath is wafhed away, and
the bare rock with the fubftru&lon is vifible; the fpectator f in d ing
fome feet below the intended level. Near it is rabbifh o f
a church. We employed an old Albanian to watch nightly on
our fcaflFold, to prevent the ropes from being pilfered.
I n the fide o f the rock o f the Muieum next to the I
are the fepulchres, which we noted in our way from the Pi
Some time after Solon, it was enaried at Athens, ih
fepulch-re fhould have more labour beftowed on it than cot
performed by ten men in three days * that the roof food
plain •. and- that no Hermae or Mercurial ftataes flsotu
allowed. Thefe perhaps are o f a remoter antiquity, and
defigned for no vulgar tenants j but, though manfions <
illuftrious dead, they have long fince been ftripped ci
marble-facings and ornaments, and are now ©pen, and cs
ferving chiefly to fhelter cattle from the fun.
W e now enter the valley at the foot o f the hill o f the
acropolis, in which is a- track leading between Pnyx and the
Areopagus, toward the temple o f Thefeus. This region was
called Ccele, or tbe Hollow. On the left hand is a gap ns the
, 1 v. Fabrett. ad Col. Trej. In the following year
firmed to Trajan. Die. 'This does not occur among
and the omiffiou will aicertain the date, if it be lapp*
not continued.