CORYCIAN CAVE. 



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An inscription, which still remains on a mass of rock, near the 

 entrance, marks that the cavern has been dedicated to Pan and the 

 Nymphs. 



EYSTPATOD 

 AAKIAOMOT 

 AMBPTIIOX 

 STMPEPIPOAOI 

 PANI NTMOAI2.* 



The epithet applied to Pan, may perhaps allude to the share he 

 was reputed to have in defending Delphi against the Gauls and 

 Brennus. 



* Pan and the Nymphs are associated on various occasions; (see Aristoph. Thesm. 

 985. ; the life of Plato by Olympiodorus, and the Attics of Pausanias. Seetzen saw in 

 Syria, a Greek inscription in which they are jointly commemorated ; they are also placed 

 together in that found in the Corycian cave, where the words allude to some act of worship 

 rendered by " Eustratus, of Ambryssus, son of Dacidomus to Pan, who was the guardian 

 of the place, together with the Nymphs." (neplwoXos, fpovpoc, tyopo;. Hesych.) — E. 



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