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military exercises. Aristoph. Pax. 354. Close to Lycaeum was the 

 gate of Diocharis, and fountains of water. (Strabo, 1. ix.) We may 

 here remark, that the situation of the Lycseum may assist us in 

 finding the frontier town of Decelea ; the Lycasum was in a direct 

 line between that place and Athens ; Agis leading out his troops 

 from Decelea against the Athenians, was met by the army of the latter 

 under under Thrasylus at the Lyceum. Xenop. Hell. i. c. 1. 



H. 8. The site probably of Cynosarges. Diog. Laer. 1. vi. c. 1. 

 There was a temple sacred to Hercules in it, Paus. 1. i., near which 

 the Athenians, after the battle of Marathon, encamped in their way 

 to Athens. Herod. 1. vii. 



F. 9. The road to Marathon, passing at the foot of Mount Hymettus. 



F. 1. The beginning of the range of Pentelicus. 



F. 2. Part of the modern town of Athens. The whole space to 

 the south of the Acropolis, between it and the Ilissus, was formerly 

 covered with temples and other edifices, as well as the part to the 

 north of the rock. Thucy. 1. 2. Plato in Crit. Dion. Chrys. Orat. vi. 



I. 6. Round this point of the rock is the site of an ancient theatre, 

 supposed by Chandler to be the theatre of Bacchus. At a short 

 distance to the right in the town is the Choragic monument of 

 Lysicrates. 



[A representation of this theatre is given on a painted vase 

 belonging to Yianachi Logotheti ; it was found thirty years ago near 

 Aulis ; the eastern end of the Acropolis is there depicted ; the 

 corresponding part of the Parthenon above ; below it is the cavern 

 of Apollo and Diana, and beneath, the Theatre.] Ed. 



K. 8. The Choragic monument of Thrasyllus, placed before a 

 grotto, which is at present a church dedicated to the Holy Lady of 

 the Cave. Over it was a female figure clothed in a lion's skin ; now 

 in the possession of Lord Elgin. 



[It has been considered under various denominations ; and Vis- 

 conti shows clearly that it represented the female Bacchus. In 

 addition to what he has said respecting the character of this 

 Deity, we may state the following references. Porphyry calls 

 Bacchus, ©rjivuopQcz. Theodoret, H. Eccl. 1. iii. c. 7., says that the 

 Gentiles of Emesa consecrated a building Atoiv<ru tu yv'vth; and 



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