fhropy, had aifo'poffefled more religion Rian any other peoplej
and he adds, that fueh as. had excelled' in piety were attended in
proportion by good, fortune. The altar, which remained under
Julian, has been deferibed as fhaded with trees; among which
was- an olive known^torrupplfants’-and laurels fecked-vwith
fillets j as Frequented by the wretched and ever wet with their
tears j- as hung with trefles1 o f ihair, and1 with the votive garments
o f perfons who had 'been relieved.- .
P P I I A Pi ni XIX.
JîbfraSt <f Pasfanias— Of (Be tempièilf l Jtfié Diojhuft and f
Agraulos SPf Côlünifis oj afferent kinds' o f file -- - O f iffe
Delphinium -— O f the ièm p lP fVends YtiUhe gardens.
I N the preceding chapter we jhave^^èoMèïînfeif^dpï^l^l
from the gate Dipylon into the region called' Agrje, ’ whith'çr
he will now condufl: us by a different 1 S a f e pppoilte'fide
o f thfe Ahropoliè, and, as it wéfê, tnrôûgfif thé Jprefent'^Hwfr.
He begins with the Gyijinafium of Ptolemy, and then notes the
temple qf Thefëûsî' with the temple o f thfpioicu/i ; Tahd^bbve
it, that of Agraulos. The Prytaneum wàs héffiPj
frOpTt into the lower parts of the cfty^ theré wâV a temple of
Serapis ipnd, not far from this* the place’'iéhéfejJ^ e f è w ?ln'iS
Krithous made their fatal compadt1 f near whicn was?
o f Ilythia. This brings him to f£e ' tefi^K‘'iâic']fù^SéPôiÿflaV
plus dedicated with the ftatue by the emperor Hadrian, who
had alfo ereRed temples of Junoand of Jupiter Panhèllënids, and
a Pantheon, in which his adts were infCribVd’jJ and ifàré^ftéte
edifices richly adorned, and doom's, arid the Gjmhafiurn df Hadrian.
Thele buildings, it may. beAhferved, wérè ih Nbw Alhuflsr,
The periboîüs pi: iricldfuré of the’ Olympiéum confaïriéd1 alio
a temple of Saturn and Rhea,'arid a facred portion of the
, * Vide Sophocl, Oedip. Col. v. 1588.
goddefs
goddefs Riled Olympia. Near the Olympiehim was Apollo
Pythius, and 'the Delphinium, or temple ^f Apollo Delphinius j
from whichr.the authonipatfés to the temple-öf V e m ^ f ’Jhe
gardens; r>Cynohv%z$, the Lycdum, the Iliffus and Eridanus,
th^egmn callediAgr^itheitemple p f Diaj^>.rand* th»Sl^ium.
X b b temple ©f the-Diofouri; which was called’ -alfo the
Anacéum; with that of AglauBos, Rood ondhe hill of the Acropolis
near the front. The Perfians under Xerxes endeavoured to
fet ifire to the palifades, which i then fecured the entrance
of the fórtrefs^d difchafging- arrojvs with burning^ flax
from Areopagus j but got poflefiion by* climbing a precipice,
before deemed’ inacceflible, beyond hhë gates; appqfite to the
tempJi of Agl^ip:0^ Piflftratus/ummoned^the people to attend
at the Anacéum» , came .forward from the Ac^^^p^^^nd.-
addrefled th e r e in a low voirie ? r^roved
tbejif. arms* upperceived, and fecured them in the temple o f
Aglauros. It was'in this temple the military o'dth adml-
n^ered to. the young Athenians, when they'attained to thé'age
Óf twenty Years and werq enrolled among the c iti^ is.^ .:
. A mong the ill-matched columns in the churches ife federal' o f
the marble imported by Hadrian* for his Pantheon -and Gym-
hafium. In the former, were ope hundred and*twenty1 from.
j^rygia,1; and:; |n/the latter brie hundred: from Libya. ^The
produce^ o f the, Attic ^quarries is white; that of the Phrygian*
white\variegated;with different colours:.
, - A geus lived by the DelphinfuibY’ a n d n n ^ fpot
fenced about, where,. *it was laid,, the qup fell with the poifon,
which, at the inftigation of Medea, he tendered jtb Théfeus,
before, he knew him to be hj^fon.' A^Mercurwjo the eaft o f
the temple was called ‘The Mercury at the gate o f Mgeus * >
' m See Ruins of-A&ens, p. 39- :
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