218 ATHENS. 
CHAP, which their citadels stood : or in niches, by the 
IV. 
1 > side of their most frequented roads. Hiera, 
answering to this description, are found, at this 
day, in all countries professing the Greek and 
Roman- Catholic religions; before which votive 
gifts are placed, as in former ages : and this 
seems sufficient to explain the sort of temples 
alluded to by antient authors, as being here 
stationed within a niche, called the CAVE OF 
PAN, in the face of the rock below the Acropolis 
of ATHENS. Within this cave there formerly 
statue of stood a statue of the goat-footed God ; who, on 
that account, was said by Euripides 1 , and by 
Lucian*, to have fixed his residence at Athens, 
beneath the northern or Pelasgic wall of the 
Acropolis : and it is rather remarkable, that in 
a garden below this Grotto, at the foot of the 
rock, there was discovered a marble statue of 
Pan, of a size to suit the cavity, which exactly 
(1) Rf. " mat *<rai>tn' Ma, 
Tit. OT3', iifa, Ha.il; SSvret, MI pauii trit.it;. 
" Audi igitur : novisti Cecropias rupes, 
Septentrionale in iis antrum, quas Macras vocamus?" 
" Scio, ubi est sacellum Pan is et ara prope." 
Euripid. in Ion. 936. p. 334. Edit. Barnes. Cantab. 1694. 
(2) Keu r atr ixiiitv, rrii inri rn <c*r*A.u rrnt-vyy* rtu~w af3(Mfti- 
*u ^w{ v9 * nx*ryi*w, *. T. A. Ltifiani Bis Accusatus, 
torn. VII. p. 60. Bipont. 1790. 
