RUINS OF THE PLAIN OF TROT. 539 



From the A'ianteum wo passed over a heathy country to Hal'i! 

 Elly, a village n-ar the Thymbrius, in whose vicinity we had been 

 instructed to seek the remains of a temple once sacred to the 

 Thymbrean Apollo. The ruins we found were rather the remains 

 of ten temples than of one. The earth to a very considerable 

 extent was coven-d by subverted anil broken columns of marble 

 granite, and of every order in architecture. Doric, Ionic, and 

 Corinthian capitals, lay dispersed in all directions, and some of 

 these were of great beauty. We observed a bas.relief represent, 

 ing a person on horseback pursued by a wiuged figure; also a 

 beautiful representation, sculptured after the same manner of 

 Ceres in her car drawn by two scaly serpents. Of three inscrip- 

 tions which 1 copied among these ruins, the first was engraven 

 upon the shaft of a marble pillar. This we removed, and brought 

 to England. It is now in the vestibule of the public library at 

 Cambridge ; and commemorates the public services of a phrontistes 

 of Drnsus Caesar. The names of persons belonging to the family 

 of Germanicus occur frequently among inscriptions found in and 

 near Troas. Drucus, the son of Germanicus, was himself ap- 

 pointed to a government in the district. Whatsoever tends in any 

 degree *o illustrate the origin of the ruins in which it was discover, 

 ed, will be considered interesting ; although, after all, we must 

 remain in a state of the greatest uncertainty with regard to the 

 city alluded to in either of these documents. Possibly it may 

 have been Scamandria , but in the multitude of cities belonging to 

 Troas, a mere conjecture, without any positive evidence, is less 

 pardonable tlian silence. The inscription, offering our only re- 

 maining clue, sets forth that the tribe Attalis commemorated Sex. 

 tus Julius Festus, a magistrate of the city, and praefect of the Flavian 

 cohort, who had bee.i Gymnasiarch, and given magnificently and 

 largely, to the senators and all citizens, oil and ointment for some 

 public festival. 



The third inscription and perhaps the most important, had these 

 remcrkable words 



" THE ILIEAXS TO THBtR COUNTRY'S GOD -EXEAS." 



If this had been found by a late respectable and learned author, 

 it might hare confirmed him in the notion that the Thymbrius was 



