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Khod. Arg. i. 667.) On a coin of Olba in Cilicia, we see a chair 

 represented, and on one side of the money is the name of Polemo, 

 high priest and prince of the city. (Mem. de I'A. In. xxi. 427.) 

 These and other examples prove that marble seats were allotted as 

 places of distinction* to persons of eminence. They may be 

 considered, sometimes, as forming part of the public monuments of 

 the state. The Adulitan inscription is written on the At(pf,og 

 nToXefiutKo:. ChishuU, An. As. 76. The custom we allude to was 

 familiar to the inhabitants of Italy also. " Caius Julius Gelo is 

 allowed to sit at the public games at Veii among the priests, called 

 Augusiales, bisellio propiio.'" JNIem. de I'Ac. xxi. 374.] — Ed. 



THE CORYCIAN CAVE. 



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March 19. — I quitted the village of Aracova at half-past seven ; 

 the master of the cottage in which I had slept undertook to guide us 

 to the Corycian cave, with the situation of which he appeared 

 acquainted. We left the road to Castri which continued to run along 

 the narrow valley between the two mountains, and turning to the 

 right began to ascend the slope of Parnassus by a steep road im- 

 mediately from the village. The declivity was cultivated with an in- 

 dustry worthy of Switzerland. Every spot of vegetable soil was 

 covered with low vines ; and I remarked one attention to the value 

 of productive ground which occurred no where else in Greece. The 

 shallow soil was sometimes interrupted by great masses of rock which 

 reared themselves above the surface, and the careful husbandman, 



* On the marble chair at Lesbos, tlic inscription is ITOTAMiiNOS Ti2 AESBliNAK- 

 T02 ITPOEAPIA, not Tou, ns some have erroneously copied it. At Delphi there is a 

 chair with an inscription on the back; Clarke's Travels, T. iii. who iiifbrnis ns, p. 145, 

 that there is one also at Chajronea, which the Greeks still call Spovo;. A Gyninasiarch's 

 chair in marble at Athens is mentioned in Lord Elgin's Memorandum, p. 32. 



