564 REMARKS ON THE THESAURI OF THE GREEKS. 



and construction ; we may infer that they were small buildings, for 

 no less than ten are enumerated by Pausanias as erected at Olympia ; 

 and as many, we learn from the same writer, and from Herodotus, 

 Strabo, and Xenophon, were seen at Delphi. * In describing one 

 raised by the people of Megara, at Olympia, Pausanias mentions a 

 circumstance which leads us in some degree to a knowledge of the 

 form of these buildings ; he says, " the war of the gods and giants 

 was worked in relief on the pediment of the Thesaurus ;" Tou ^^o-aupou 



(?£ STrsifi-yjt.crrixi tu ccstco 6 yiyd.vTuv y.a.t 6suv TrcXsf^o^. We have UO word in 



English by which we can properly designate the Thesauri of this 

 second class, unless we adopt " sacred chambers or chapels." The 

 expression oTy.oc, as well as j/aoV, is applied by the Greeks to them. 

 (Wytten. Anim. in Plut. ii. 990.) The French use the term, " espece 

 de chapelles ou salles ; Larcher, Herod, i. 200. Chapclles occurs in the 

 French translation of Strabo, lib. ix. 454., and in the Memoires de 

 I'Acad. des Inscrip. 47. 84. The Greek word is sometimes rendered 

 by Sacrariumf ; and Schweighseuser, in his commentary on Athe- 

 naeus, lib. xiii. c. 84., says, '^^ varias fuisse Delphis cellas quas Thesauros 

 vocabant ;'" a similar meaning is affixed to the word by if U' Or villa 

 We learn from different testimonies that religious anathemata or the 

 offerings of states and individuals of a sacred nature (tc^Sis^a'^Mei/a) were 

 preserved in them (Strabo, G07.) ; in one, at Delphi, called by 

 Polemo TTiiiccKuv OijcraupoV, there were two statues of marble, and the 

 name implies that tablets were placed in it. (See Schwei. in 1. supra 

 citato. ) 



* See Pausanias, lib. x. ; Herodotus, lib. i. and iii. ; Xenophon Anab. lib. v. ; Strabo, 

 pp.607. 301. 312., for the mention of the Thesauri of the Clazomcnians, Corinthians, 

 Siphnians, Athenians, and of the people of Spina and Agylla. 



-j- See Wesseling ad Diod. Sic. t. i. 714. 



% Sicil. 74. Thesauri vocabantur cellas separates et seclus£E circa templa in quibus singulfE 

 civitates donaria sua dedicabant, non aliter fere ac hodie Romanfe Hierarchiae illustriores 

 saepe subditi suam quisque, (luani vocant capellam, in ipsis tem[)lis habcnt. In an Oscan 

 inscription, we find TESAVR, wliich is Thesaurus, locus sacelli Herculis. — See Passeri 

 Pitt. Etrus. 3 vol. Ixii. 



