o© the ©dc o f the greater Hymettus, in view from Athens»
encomjMiicvi by a wall with battlements» and entered by a low
man door. The Greek women repair to it at particular fealons»
and near it is a fountain much extolled for its virtues. The
papas or prieft affirmed» that a dove is leen to fly down from
heaven to drink o f it yearly» at the feaft o f Pentecoft. I
iioecxkd to the top o f the mountain» where I enjoyed a fine
propped o f the country and of the iilands in the ASgean fea»
near the coaft o f Attica.
C H A P . XXXI.
'Ttattts i&m en Pkakrtm and Stamm — Capes and ijlands—
B a rre s» by Atspeoi— Vffiges o f Æxone and Anagyrus —
JB&bertamei by a Greek Abbot — A Panéum or Jacred cave — •
W hekrs n u t from Sanhm to Athens— Remarks.
TH E towns on the coaft, going from Phalerum toward
Sanium, were Alimas, Æxone, Aise of Æxone, Anagyrus»
Thocæ, Lampra, Ægilia, Anaphlyftus, Azenia. Alimus was
at the feme difiance as Phalerum from Athens, and had a temple
o f Ceres and Proferpine. Lampra was the place to which
Cr2E23S the foceeflor o f Cecrops fled from Amphiftyon. His
nscaamenc remained in the time o f Paufanias, above fixteen
hundred years after his death, and, i f a barrow» is perhaps fiill
extant.
T hk long promontory, the firft after Æxone, was named
Z o fe r, beezofe, it was feid, Latona had loofed her zone there
î2. her way to Delos, whither (he was conducted by Minerva.
On the fhore was an altar. After Tboræ was Aftypalaea. Before
oae o f the capes was the ifland Pbaara -, before the other,
E3cafe | and opposite to Æxone, Hydrufâ. Toward Anaphlyftus
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tut' was a Pan^um or cave of Pan, and the temple o f Venus
Colias. The weft wind fcattered the wreck* o f the Perfian fleet,
after the battle of Salami*, along the fhore as far a* Colias.
Before thefe place* lay Belbina, at no great diftance, and the
fofle of Patroclus, but moft o f the ifland* were defer t. Pan*
fanias mention* cape Colias, with the image o f Venus, a* twenty
ftadia or two mile* and a half from Phalerum, Colia* was
famous for earthen ware, tinged with vermilion.
Some information, received loon after our return from
mount Hymettus, induced u* to go in the following month to
Vary, a metochi or farm belonging to a Greek monaftery at
Athens, on the fea-coaft, and diftant about four hours. T he
road led us, as before, to the veftlges o f Alopece, beyond
which we faw feveral (mall barrows, the foil poor and ftony.
Their origin may be deduced from early hiftory. The Lacedemonians
fent an army under Anchimolius to free Athens from
the tyranny o f the fons o f Pififtratus. He landed at Phalerum,
encamped, was attacked, and killed with many o f his men.
Their graves or barrows, fays Herodotus, are by Alopece*.
O n our approach to the fhore, feme vefliges occurred, it is
likely, o f AExone. We then turned, and travelled toward
Sunium, through a gap in mount Hymettus, which running
out forms the promontory once called Zofter. Within the gap,
near the end, we came to the fite o f a confiderable town, feme
terrace walls o f the fpecies called Incertum remaining. Beyond
thefe is a church. We found feme fragments o f mfcnptiofss
fixed in the w a ll; and one o f my companions afterwards copied
a fepulchral marble recording a perfbn o f Anagyrus, which, it
is probable, was the name o f the place. The terrace perhaps
was the fite of the temple o f the mother o f the gods.
T he convent Hands on a knoll above the lea, with Lamprs,
the promontories Sunium and ScyUseum, and the fcfle o f Patro-
* «8s* h Strabo p. 3955. There was a renspk ot G ars .
* 1> v. c. 6. Pififtratus died in the vear before Ckrift, 52$. u a dttS