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ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ATHENS. 



Strabo, who substitute 'Aj/t/o^ for dvaQsig. The next great effort to 

 finish this structure, is recorded in the followingpassage of Suetonius: — 

 Aug. " Cuncti {reges amid et socii) simul cedem Jovis Olympii Athenis 

 antiquitus inchoatam perficere communi sumptu destinaverunt ; Genioque 

 ejus dedicare" But it was reserved for Hadrian to put the finishing 

 hand to this magnificent pile of building. 



Pausanias takes the opportunity in this place of mentioning what 

 other public buildings had been erected by that Emperor at Athens. 

 After which, he continues his excursion eastward, noticing, first, the 

 statue of Apollo Pythius, which appears to have stood in some con- 

 secrated building, 'hpov ; for immediately afterwards, he observes, tg-i 

 tea) oitXKo Itpov A7roXXcovog ttiitkuciv AeXfiiviov, implying the existence of 

 two temples ; the former of which being then perhaps in a ruinous 

 state or absolutely destroyed, is not named. This interpretation of 

 the passage is, I think, supported by Thucydides, who, among the 

 temples enumerated on the south side of the Acropolis, mentions the 

 Pythium ; and still more so by Strabo, who tells us that it was near 

 the Olympium. Of these two temples of Apollo, as well as that of 

 Venus in the gardens ; the temple of Hercules called Cynosarges ; 

 the Lyceum, &c. ; all which lay in the direction which Pausanias is 

 now taking, and attracted his notice ; no remains are now extant. 



Pausanias then comes to the Ilissus, which he crosses, and arrives 

 at the district called Agrae, where he notices the temple of Diana 

 Agrotera ; finishing this excursion with some account of the Stadium 

 of Herodes Atticus ; the site of which, now correctly ascertained by 

 modern travellers, confirms the idea of Pausanias's general accuracy. 

 Nor is the consistency of his narrative less apparent, in the circum- 

 stance of his returning at once to the Prytaneum, without mentioning 

 either the Olympium, the Eleusinium, or Enneacrunos, which lay in 

 his way, or near it, but had already been noticed. 



Pausanias now starts again from the Prytaneum, which had been 

 fixed by his narrative at the eastern base of the Acropolis hill. The 

 street of the Tripods, he says, commences from this building ; the 

 same denomination being given to the quarter of the city, (ro^wp/oi/,) 



