lF F{0 R E the
Christian era;
M^iyit, ‘ Athos
was Celebrated
I ' ifor the--length
of its shadow
(ihgenti tellu-
L , renal.-'- proximus
umbra ' vesrir. •
I Stat )rag mhieh'
Mas ■■«did to
[ ^eteach' 'as'far as
, the fslejof Lem-
'ai r tor - the
k ■ nmltitudc of its
; .pores, in Atlicu
for
’ having b('<n the
scene of one of
the most won~j
I 'dcrfril exploits
of Xerxes, who
in -
f sat'd'to ha\ote®
a - passage/ fo®
| K’is''khips through'-tfie 'lower part of this'vast m ofinthiti Sr-
I ’■'Sjn'ye'stne tim(' of, the later Christian Empfi^^
■ it hag beenge]ebrated chiefly fofERieStunilJ|jr,J,©f i 1 s \iopn^terffs
KS-^^^^^SSohhi^V^eeeived «die? tfaih e S f ‘'«‘the Holy’^^S^taip",
^^wAyioo oposj «or, as it was;, called by the Italians, Monte Kuito.)
I These'wiionaS.teries are singularly ihMffi*^®!g: ‘to . the,antiquary,
I because'in them are preserved thev manners and the ails ha li‘
1 characterized tb&txnQB'asterics pfojrro* wot of .Europe, prevfouhly
I to the general introduction of the Ifonedietine Rule. «One^ot these,
the motoastery^ofoCaracaJlal^ossfes^di'ifor jjmhturies fKe beautiful
or os|; .represented^,!oitr plate, nliich was used- b^^tliebjishops of
the ’Greek Church at the feast oh the'‘Epiphany, for the purpose
dfp(fes§ipg ilthe water. It iisifcp^'ected’ with the name of onAof