170 RUINS OF IOULIS. 
CHAP, cence of its remains: those of the city extend 
in. 
from the hill quite into a valley which is 
watered by the streams of a fountain whence 
IOULIS received its name. " Never," observes 
the author now cited 1 , " have I seen such 
masses of marble employed in architecture, as 
those used for constructing the walls of this 
city ; some of the blocks are more than twelve 
feet in length." The British Consul told us, 
that the head of the fine Torso represented in 
Tournefori's travels was carried away by an 
Englishman. Strabo relates, that there were 
once four cities upon this island, Poeeessa, Car- 
thcea, Caressus, and loulis; but that in his time 
the inhabitants of Poeeessa had settled in Car- 
th<ra, and those of Caressus in IOULIS. He has 
preserved from Menander an antient and memo- 
rable law of the inhabitants of this islan/J 5 : 
" LET HIM WHO CANNOT LEAD AN HONOUR- 
CO Tourncfort fouu d the remains of an inscription upon a broken 
marble in a Creek chapel among the ruins, containing the word 
IOTAIAA. 
(2) 'O ftti 1uiu.(jt.iv />{ Jf KO./.U;, ou } xaxu;. Thus rendered by 
XYLANDER, " Qui non potest viverc bene, non male moritur :" perhaps 
alluding to an antient custom in Zto, of putting to death aged and 
infirm persons. The Editor of the Oxford Strabo has disputed this 
interpretation ; and says the sense should be, " Qui non bene vitarn 
agrre poles(, non male vitam agat." Vid. Annot. in Sirabon. Geog. 
lib. x. p. 710. Oxm. 1807. Not. 12. The same law is in JElian, 
lib. iii. cap. 37. 
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