ATHENS. 
edly an antient sepulchre The monument of 
Euripides was a Cenotaph, but that of Mcnander 
did really contain his ashes. The tomb of 
Euripides was at Pella, in Macedonia ; possibly, 
therefore, this mound may have been the sepul- 
chre of the Comic Poet. Pausanias, speaking 
of the Cenotaph of Euripides, calls it Mv^e/a 3 . 
This is evidently TaQoq, but it has upon 
its summit the remains of some structure, 
not as for the support of a Stele, but of a 
Mviipeiov raised upon the mound ; which would 
rather confirm Chandlers opinion, who believed 
it to be the monument raised to Euripides*. It 
had not been opened at the time of our arrival^ 
The business of making excavations among the Excava- 
tions at 
Grecian tombs was then beginning in the neigh- Athens. 
bourhood of Athens, and it has since abun- 
dantly rewarded the taste of those travellers 
under whose patronage such labours have been 
carried on*. We observed the remains of the 
(3) See Pausanias t lib. i. c. 2. p. 6. Lips. 1696. 
(4) See Travels in Greece, p. 24. Oxf. 1776. 
(5) A French artist, Mons. Fauvel, is said to have met with great 
success in these researches. Don Battista Lusieri opened several 
tombs, and thus made a collection of the most valuable Grecian 
vases. Among English travellers, the EARL OF ABERDEEN is particu- 
larly distinguished for his liberality in encouraging works of this kind: 
the more laudable, in being opposed to the lamentable operations 
which another British Earl, one of his Lordship's countrymen, was 
then prosecuting, to the UTTER RUIN of the finest works of Antient 
Greece. 
