Auguftus and the goddefs Rome; which was Handing not many
years ago. We were ihown the bafement, which remains} and
were informed, the ruin had been demolifhed, and a. new rnofque,
which we faw on the mountain-fide, above the town, railed
with the marble. The houfe of a Turk occupying the life, we
employed the Hungarian to treat with him for admiifion} but
he affirmed we could fee nothing; and added, that there was his
Haram or the apartment of his women, which was an obfiacle
not to be furmounted. It had fix columns in front, and the
whole number had been twenty two.
O n the hill, and not far from the bafement of the temple, is
a column, of the Corinthian order, Handing, with a flat-roofed
cottage, upon a piece of folid wall. It has fupported a flatue ;
and on the fhaft is an infcription. “ The people have eredted
“ Menander, fon of Ouliades, fon of Euthydemus, a benefac-
“ tor to his country, and defcended from benefadtors.” The
Turk, who lived in the cottage, readily permitted a ladder to
be placed on the terrace for meafuring the capital, which was
done as expeditioufly as poffible, but not before we were informed,
that feveral of the inhabitants murmured, becaufe their
houfes were overlooked. Befides this, two fluted columns, of
the Ionic order, remained not many years fince.
E u th yd emu s , the anceflor of Menander, was contemporary
with Auguflus Caefar. He was of an illuflrious family, and
poflefled an ample patrimony. He was eloquent, and not only
great in his own country, but refpedted as the firfl perfon of
Afia Minor. His power was fo advantageous to the city, that,
i f it favoured of tyranny, the odium was overcome by its utility.
Hybreas concluded an oration, with telling him, he was
a necefiary evil. This demagogue, who fucceeded Euthydemus,
bad inherited only a mule and its driver, employed then, as
many now are, in bringing wood from the mountains for fale.
B e n e a t h
B e n e a t h the hill, on the eafl fide of the town, is an arch
or gateway of marble, of the Corinthian order. On the key-
Hone of the exterior front, which is eaflward, we obferved a
double-hatchet, as on the two marbles near Myus. It was
with difficulty we procured ladders to reach the top; and
fbme were broken, before we could find three fufficiently long
and flrong for our purpofe. The going up, when thefe were
united, was not without danger. The aga had exprefled fome
wonder at our employment, as defcribed to him; and feeing one
of my companions on the arch, from a window of his houfe,
which was oppofite, pronounced him, as we were told, a brave
follow, but without brains. We defired him to accept our um^
brella, on his fending to purchafe it for a prefent to a lady of his
Haram, who was going into the country. By the arch was at
fountain, to which women came with earthen pitchers for water»
and with their faces muffled.
W e faw a broad marble pavement, with vefiiges of a theatre;,
near the Corinthian column. Toward the centre of the town-
we obferved a fmall pool of water, and by it the maffive arches of
fome public edifice. In the court of the aga’s houfe, was an-
altar much ornamented. We found an altar likewife in the
flreets, and a pedeflal or two half buried, with pieces of antient„
wall. Round the town are ranges of broken columns, the remnants
of porticoes, now, with rubbifli, bounding the vineyards.
A large portion of the plain is covered with fcattered fragments,
and with piers of ordinary aquasdudls; befides infcriptions,
moflly ruined and illegible. Some altars, dedicated to Heca-
tomnus, have been difcovered.
A bout a quarter of a mile from the town- is. a fepulchre
of the fpecies called by the antients, Dijiaga or Double-roofed.i
It confifled of two fquare rooms. In the lower, which has a.
* See a fimilar edifice in Mountfaucon. t. 5. Tab, 27.
door-way»