cluSj Belbina, and other iflands, in view. We found there the
hegumenos or abbot, who was come from Athens to receivers;
and two or three caloyers or monks, who manage the farm.
We were entertained with boiled fowls, olives, cheefe, and the
like fare. The iky, as ufual, was our canopy j and after fun^
fet, we lay down to fleep, fome under a fhed, forné -in the
court, and one of my companions in a tree, where a man had
watched the Alóni or corn-floor, which was clofe by,- during
the harveft. .
W e alcended early in the morning to a pave or grotto, which
was the objedt of our journey, diftant about
an.hour, inland, in the mountain. This, which appears toJ^CAbe
Panéum mentioned by Strabo, will be the fabjedfc of the following
chapter. It affords fhelter to the goatherds invwinter,; and'
is frequented at all feafons for water by thofe who have their,
occupation on the mountain. Our men "made a f i reini t to
purify the air, and we tarried all day,' dining,apam on a IJiefjL
roafted whole.
A n . abflrad: o f the journey o f Sir iGeqrge Wheler. from1
Sunium to Athens will illuftrate this portion of the geqgraphy
o f Attica. He directed his■ eojgt|fe; alongf' the . sfbeiEodfi-the
Saronic gulf and pafled the night .with- forpe flieph’ecds. near
Metropis a town on a hill. Ten or twelve roil.es farther on, h e .
came to ruins on a rock, near a bay. Thefe were-call.ed;Enhe.a-
pyrgae, the Nine 'Towers. From Lampra, th re eor four miles
more inland, he travelled north-weflward in a cultivated plain
to a very few houles called Fillia. He then turned more norths-
weftward into the way to Athens, and} entered . between two
ridges of mount Hymettus, one. called Lampra-Vouni,' the other.-
Telo-vouni, This defcendpd with a fharp point into the lca^
making a promontory named Halikes,- before which are'four
fmall iflands or rocks called Cambonifia, the Button IJlands. He
then arrived in the plain of Athens.
Of thefe places, Metropis may have been, as he fuppofes,.
Azenia. Enneapyrgae was Anaphlyftus. The next village was
upper
tipper Lampra j and Fillia perhaps was that of which the
people- were once; called Philaid*. Halikes, with the Cam-
bonifia, was Zofter with the iflets about it. Lampra-voum was
on his leift h'irid. He appears to have quitted the coaft, and to
have entered the plain of Athens through the gap dividing the
greater from the lefler Hymettus.
C t H A P. XXXII.
BiftinBfrovincds- o f the heathen gods — 'their characters and places
! y q frwotJhip.^~ i f Tdnfum ~%r Nympheeum, mth ihfcriptions—
O f Archidamus and the^age-vopen he lived—- O f the Nympkt
i Q f Nympholepfy — O f facred caves— O f a cave in Ithaca —
In Paphlagonia - - - O f the two- entrances— The offerings—
JDefgn ifith e cave*
T H E pious Athenian was antiently furniflied with patrbri-
grids for evei^e^upation, ifituation, and purfuit. He who
ventured to fea firft propitiated Neptune, Amphitrite, and the
IsT^reids. The artift facrificed to Minerva and. Vulcan; the
ftudent to the, Mafes^ Apollb dheir leader, Memory, and
Merciiry the lover to Venus and Cupid, Perfuafiqn, and the
Girafc.es j the hulbandman to Ceres and her fon Bacchus j and
♦ bp. (portfman to Diana the Huntrefs, Apollo; Pan, the Nymphs,
and the deities of. the mountains. I
T h e . charadters- ! o f the gods o f Greece were as diftin<3 as
the provinces over which they were fuppofed to prefide.
Apollo, -with the M-ufes about him, was a moft accomphfhed
deity j Pan a very ruftic. Some were o f a focial turn and gods ,
of pleafure j Wh leathers preferred retirement, and lived fequef-
tered in the country. T h e city Bacchus was prefent in the
theatres; the Nymphs were difcovered by fprings and foun-
rfu in i - M — tains«