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account of the altar of pity which was in it, we pass on to the 

 Gymnasium of Ptolemy, which he tells us was not far distant. The 

 situation of this building is determined by some actual remains of it 

 which were found by Stuart, compared with an inscription which had 

 been removed from thence, recording the dedication of a statue to 

 Ptolemy the son of Juba. Farther proofs of this appropriation have 

 since been discovered by Fauvel and others, in the plan and dimensions 

 of the buildinff. 



In the same direction, too, TrpoV Se tZ yvf/,v<xT!o!, was the temple of 

 Theseus, upon which Pausanias dwells with pleasure. There can be 

 little doubt, that this is the fine temple which is still in existence on 

 the N. W. of the Acropolis, both on account of its vicinity to the 

 preceding building, and the subjects of some of the sculptures on it. 

 It is true, that Pausanias omits all mention of a ixog, calling the 

 building simply U{.ov and o-tjx.oV ; but this is not unusual with him, nor 

 is he very consistent with himself in the use of any of the terms 

 which he applies to temples * ; besides, the pictures of Micon which 

 he here notices, imply the existence of a Naos, on the walls of which 

 they must have been painted. " Why," (to borrow the words of 



• The following, however, is an instance of his discrimination : — Teju.£voj xai legov xai 

 vxov 'AgTe'ixiBi axoSofiijVaTo. Lib. v. c. fi. — Mj' readers will be glad to see how these terms 

 are explained in Lenneps' Etymologicum Linguae Graecse : — 



" Naof sive NsaJc, 

 commode Hcsychius interprctatur olxo,-, h^x ^so: ■TrgoaKVvstToii. ---------- 'legiv 



aiitem et vao:, sive vsaS:, quando connectuntur, veluti apud Thucyd. lib. iv. § 90. ; nsp) to 

 legov x.a.) tov vecoi/ (ubi plura notavit Dukerus) ita distingui debent, ut Ugov significet to 

 Ts/isvoj sive totam aream deo consecratam, hnmanisqiie usibus exemptam, to Ugov ^uiglov: 

 vab; vero ipsum fanuni vel templi ffidificium. 'lighv autem intelligendum relinquit Scu^ta, et 

 saepius adsciscit ayiov, &c. &c. 



2r,xov, 



.--. . Porro a-riKov in templis deorum eximie dictam fuisse cellam, in 



qua dei sedes esset, quae pp. etiam vxbg vocaretur, observavit eel. Valck. ad Herodoti, 



hb. vi. 33S. p. 446. Propric vaoi & Ugx sunt deorum ; herouni triixoi, ut docuit 



Pollux, lib. i. segm. 6. Ammonius et Thomas Magister in voce. Earn differentiam, etsi 

 plerumque negligatur, saepe tamen observavit Pausanias." Conf. omnino cl. D'Arnaud, 

 Animadv. Grac. p. 1 — 3. 



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