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it, may give a traveller credit for emotions, CHAP. 
similar to those excited in his own mind by the 
mere mention of an approach to ATHENS ; and 
he will anticipate, by his imagination, what it is 
impossible to describe. Such is the nature of 
the place, and such the magnitude of its ruins, 
that, in a general view, time seems to have 
spent its ravages upon it in vain. The Acro- 
polis, and the Temples, and the Tombs, and the 
Theatres, and the Groves, and the Mountains, and 
the Rocks, and the Plain, and the Gardens, and 
the Vineyards, and the Fountains, and the Baths, 
and the Walls, and the Gates, as they appeared 
to Pericles, to Socrates, and to Alcibiades. 
<( ADSUNT ATHENE, UNDE HUM ANITAS, DOCTRINA, 
RELIGIO, FRUGES, JURA, LEGES ORT.E, ATQUE IN 
OMNES TERRAS DISTRIBUTEE, PUTANTUR : DE QUA- 
RUM POSSESSIONE, PROPTER PULCHRITUDINEM, ETIAM 
INTER DECS CERTAMEN FUISSE PRODITUM EST. URBS, 
INQUAM, QU^E VETUSTATE EA EST, UT IPSA EX SESE 
SUOS CIVES GENUISSE DICATUR : AUTHORITATE AUTEM 
TANTA, UT JAM FRACTUM PROPE ET DEBILITATUM 
GRJS.CUE NOMEN, HUJUS URBIS LAUDE NITATUR." 
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