212 ATHENS. 
CHAP. Europe were requisite, at the time of our arrival, 
to remove some of the most delicate ornaments 
of the temples, in an entire state, from the 
Acropolis to the lower city. None of the mate- 
rials of those temples are of the same nature 
as the rock upon which they were erected : 
the quarries of Pentelicus, of Hymettus, of the 
Cyciades, of Laced&mon, and of the most distant 
mountains of Greece, contributed to the works 
necessary for their completion. All the huge 
blocks of marble required for the several parts 
of each building must have been moved up the 
same steep ; for there is now, as there was 
formerly, but one way facing the Piraeus by 
which the summit may be approached L . In our 
ascent, we found an inscription on white marble, 
stating that " the Senate of the Areopagus, and 
of the Six Hundred, &c. honour Julius," &c. the 
rest being wanted. We could only make out 
the following characters: 
HEZAPEIOYRArOYBOY 
AHTflNEZAKOZinNKAl 
IOYAION NIKANOPA. 
(1) 'Ej J T>i ix.^fo\n, trrtt i?ftl/>i pta, (IT Si tu fu^irou, vea.ua, 
ifirtfMi torn) ittu ru^ts tK v l' r ' Pautanue Attica, C..22. p. 51. 
Lips. 1696. 
