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and dedicated, ig became a family 
honour, and was appealed to as an 
authentic teftimony of the merit and 
virtue of the perfon who obtained 
it; as we learn from Ifaus, in his 
oration concerning the inheritance 
of Apollodorus, where he thus ad- 
drefles his judges: ‘ What office 
did he not completely fill? What 
Jum was he not the firft to contri- 
bute? In what part of his duty was 
he deficient? Being Choragus, he 
obtained the prize with the chorus 
of boys which he gave; and yonder 
tripod remains a monument of his 
liberality on that occafion.? And 
again, in his oration concerning the 
inheritance of Diogenes, he fays: 
« Yet our anceftors, O judges! who 
firft acquired this eftate, and left it 
to their defcendants, were Choragi 
in all the Choragic games: they 
contributed liberally to the expences 
of the war, and continually had the 
command of the triremes which they 
equipped. . Of thefe noble atts, the 
cqnfecrated offerings with which 
they were able, from what remain- 
ed of their fortune, to decorate the 
temples, are no lefs undeniable 
proofs, than they are lafting monu- 
ments of their virtue; for they de- 
dicated, in the temple of Bacchus, 
‘the tripods, which, being Choragi, 
and victorious, they bore away from 
their competitors ; thofe alfo in the 
Pythium and in the Acropolis, 
&c.’=-I fhould, however, obferve, 
that fometimes the public defrayed 
the expence of the chorus, as ap- 
pears by two of the infcriptions on 
this monument. There is a paflage 
quoted from Paufanias, in our firf 
volume, p. 30; ffom which we mutt 
conclude that thefe monuments were 
fiumerous. He there tells us of a 
plate in Athens called the Tripods, 
With temples in it; not great ones, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1799. 
I imagine, as the printed copies 
have it, but Choragic temples; for 
on them, he fays, ftand tripods 
well worth feeing, although they. 
are of brafs. Harpocration men- 
tions a treatife written by Helio- 
dorus, defcribing thefe Choragic 
tripods of Athens; and cites it to 
prove that Onetor had been a Cho 
ragus.”’ 
In the sth chapter we have an 
account of the Propylea. The ig+ 
nominious death of the Kiflar Aga, 
occafioned difturbances which ex- 
tended to Athens, and drove Mr. 
Stuart and Mr. Revett from that 
place: before they had completed 
what they intended to perform. But 
in the year 1764, the Dilettanti 
Society fent Mefirs. Revett, Pars, 
and Chandler, to vifit fome of the 
moft celebrated antiquities of Afia 
Minor. 'Thefe gentlemen in their 
way homewards paffed through A- 
thens, and among various drawings 
they made of different objects, they 
did not forget the Propylea; and it 
is to the generofity of the Dilet- 
tanti Society that the fecond volume 
is indebted for the Propylea. This 
building, according to Paufanias, 
was fituated at the only entrance of 
the citadel. It was covered w:th 
roofs of white marble, furpafling in ~ 
magnificence any thing he had feen 
before. On the right of the Pro- 
pylea was a temple of Victory with. 
out wings; on the left, a building 
adorned with paintings. Thefe 
three contiguous edifices originally 
forméd but one front. Spon and 4 
Wheler miftook the real fituation of «— 
the temple of Vitory without wings, ~ 
owing to the alteration the Turks 
have made in thePropylea,by fhuttit-g¢ 
up the former paflage, and opening 
another entrance. ‘The little Ionic 
temples which they miftock for tha 
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