Trfpod the funa- of five thoufaad drachms, which has bee a
computed at 20$/. 6 s. %d. Reding •«
T he Dionyfiumy or antient temple " of Bacchus, is often
% led the temple in Limnis, that portion o f the city being fo
named. It was kept Ihut, like the church now on or near its
Ete, except at the Dionyfia or feftival of the deity, which was
celebrated yearly in the month Anthefterion: or February. The
facred rites were then performed by women, and the %%eex>
the wife of the archon called the King, facrificed for the city.
1? —a& ^Jeen already remarked, that Paufanias appears, to, have
palled from the theatre of Bacchus to the front of the Aciiopolis
by a way leading behind the Odeum and the portico adjoining to
It. The toinple o f Venus, Handing by the Agora, was probably
lower down than the other temples; That of Ceres was an
elegant edifice, as may be collected from a piece of'architrave,
with an iiifcription, wh ich. onqe ranged in the . f*ont, and
recorded the name of the perfon by whom it was dedicated j
now fixed in the caftle-wall, within the gate at which the
Turkifh guard is Rationed.
A monq. the other articles, which Paufanias faw ini the Aero-
polis, was, ft is probable, the temple or edifice facred to
Pandion father o f Eredlheus, in which the inlcribed Knar file,
mentioned as having rolled down from the Acropolis/ was once
placed. One Ratue o f him was among thofe of the Eponymi
or heroes, from whom the tribes had been named and another,
worthy notice, was in the acropolis ; probably in this building,
which may be fdppofed to have Rood near the eaflern extremity
o f the rock. A temple likewife was then extant, infcribed,
The People. To the goddefe Rome and.to Auguftus Cxfar.
u Pammenes fo n o fi Xeno o f Marathon, the prieft o f the
“ goddefs Rome and of AuguRus the Saviour, in the Acropolis,
* Ruins of Athen», p. 30,
« being Sti^tegus o r GraeM- of the city?: daughter of
“ Afclepiades of Afæ being ptieffefs o f Mihefva Polïa& thé
« moR migbtyP - ïh the ^ Mbriç
« a Pæanian.” ’The year in which this perfon was archon'is
not afcertained, but it coincides with the building o f the tepi-
ple, which was poRerior to the year of. Roiiré fèven'hundred
and forty i one.. The infimption was copied, before Mahomet
the fécond got poffefiion o f Athens, from the; veftibule o f a
temple, in the Acropolis, then a church dedicated to the Pana-
gia or Virgin Mary.
P a h s a n i a s , after mentioning Enneacrunus as the oqly
fountain at Athens, hailIRHfHjééôrdëd " tw o rö o to p ;^ ^ in the
temple of ÆRulapius, the other- below the Ptopylék; B'öth
théfe, it is likely, were nnfevieeaWe, except for certain ablutions
and purifications. The water o f the latter is now'conveyed
to the principal mofqtie in the town for fuch ufes *. It may be
conjeétiired that the fountain Rood antientlÿ hî^hdPùp jtôw'àrd
the cav^1 o f Pan i arid that the current, firit^rn^çépred, was
continued into the temple of Æfculapius. There it disappeared';
hut emerged again, after running twenty Radia, or two miles
and a half, underground toward Phalerùm. It waS'firft named
Empedo and then Cleplydra.
We have before remarked, that a writer who lived under
the two emperors named ThCodofius, has mentioned the Aretf-
pagus as nô longer a court of judicature. The firR inRance o f
a trial for murder there was faid to have been. furnilhed by
a crime, which Halirrhotius, a fon o f Neptune, committed
in the temple of Æfculapius, and which provoked Mars to kill
him. MoR of the other magiftracies were likewife extinél ; and
1 Some for read «sr*«W See the infcxipd<m in Fabricii Roma, Grater
p. M». and W Ctrfim- Fq/l- Jte* t. V p . 42. This learned Chronolôger places
Aretts In de yéar U. G. 727 or in the following, t. 4. p. 140, but fee Cbiftmll
Antiq. Afiau p. 205, p, 207...
• V. Ruins of Athens, p. 15.