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between the hill of the Acropolis and mount Tmolus. Five
columns are Handing, one without the capital j and one with
the capital awry to the fouth. The architrave was of two Hones.
A piece remains on one column, but moved fouthward; the
other part, with the column, which contributed to its fiipport,
has fallen lince the year 1699. One capital was then diflorted,
as was imagined, by an earthquake ] and over the entrance of
the Naos was a vaH Hone, which occafioned wonder by what art
or power it could be raifed. That fair and magnificent portal,
as it is Riled by the relater ’ , has fince been deflroyed;. and in
the heap lies that moft huge and ponderous marble. Part of one
of the antse is feen about four feet high. The foil has accumulated
round the ruin; and the bafes, with a moiety o f each column,
are concealed; except one, which was cleared by Mr.
Wood. This was probably the temple dedicated to the local
goddefs Cybebe or Cybele P, and which was damaged in the
conflagration of Sardes by the Milefians. It was of the Ionic
order, and had eight columns in front. The reader, who re-
colleds the embarraffment of Metagenes in building the temple
o f Diana at Ephefus, where a fimilar mafs of marble was placed
over the entrance, will be inclined to pronounce, that both fabrics
were planned by the fame bold and enterprizing architects.
The fhafts are fluted, and the capitals defigned and carved with
exquifite tafle and' fkill. It is impoflible to behold, without
deep regret, this imperfed remnant of fo beautiful and glorious
.an edifice.
t Chifliull. * See Sophocles. Philoflet. 390.
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T R A V E L S ' m AS IA MINOR. *57
C H A P . LXXVI.
Road to Ephefus 4 L a r i f f a -A f i s - Hyfcepa _ B irg he-R oa d
from Pergamum to Sardes.
J x PrecedIng chapter we have mentioned an expedition
hnnS6 S f t S f e diftance of Sardes from Ephefus was five
hundred and forty fladia or fixty feven miles and a half; and the
hifionan Herodotus, who relates their enterprize, reckons a day's
journey one hundred and fifty fladia or eighteen miles and three
quarters. T he way to Ephefus from Sardes was over Tmolus,
which is defcnbed as a compad mountain, o f a moderate extent,
having its boundaries m Lydia. On one of the fummits was a
watch-tower, ereded by the Perfians, of which perhaps the ruin
White marble' “ f “ ’ s i tuilding white marble. From it were beheld thWei tahd &jaXc eflndte sp °larins, and
in particular that of the Caylter*
b J Non1e PlaInf °f the. C^yfter was Lariira> an Ephefian village,
but once a city; and there was a temple of Apollo. Strabo
mentions a pnefl of Jupiter of Lariffa as his contemporary, and
a man of eminence at Tralles. The foil was fruitful in vines!
w b v ? T S n-earer t° . ” 10unt Tmolus than to Ephefus, from
which place it was diflant one hundred and eighty fladia or
twenty two miles and a half. It was thirty fladia or fhree mil«
£n1 h r o ? 7 UM%rS fr0m Nyfa’ lyinS above that city, the way to
r probably at the SaP bey°nd Nolli-Bazar,
dfftrid P l ° l 7 te" Ifodrome> or o f the Plain. This
traveler 7 J * the Cayfter rifes> is likely to afford the curious
traveller tome ruins, with much pleafure and fatisfadion. The
wwhhicihd wTasi slafrcge ,7 fesr ti-l?en, tiagnUd0 UwSe lel aifntwhaabrdit ewd.itb the Cilbianian,