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bareheaded from the Greeks 3 : hence it may 
almost be proved, that in this bas-relief, (as 
nothing was ever introduced by antient artists 
into their designs without some symbolic allu- 
sion,) the hat was intended as a distinguishing 
token 4 ; and its appearance is the more inter- 
esting, because it has been the opinion of anti- 
quaries that this frieze contained the portraits 
of the leading characters at Athens, during the 
Peloponnesian war ; particularly of Pericles, Phi- 
dias, Socrates, and Aldbiades*. 
We saw with the same advantage all the Practice of 
remaining sculpture of this stately edifice ; flintin^" 
visiting it often afterwards to examine the dif- * 
ferent parts more leisurely. Among the remains 
of the sculpture in the western pediment, which 
is in a very ruined state, the artists had 
observed, not only the races of paint with 
which the statues had antiently been covered, 
but also of gilding. It was usual to gild the 
(3) Vid. Eustath. in Homer. Odyss. lib. i. 
(4) It is still so considered at Athens. Guilletiere, in giving an 
account of the Fecchiados or Elders, selected out of the principal 
Christian families, forming a part of the jurisdiction of the city, says 
they are distinguished from the other citizens by wearing " (ittte. 
hats." These are his words : "Let Vecchiados portent de petits cha- 
peaur, pour tes dlstinguer des autres habitant." Voyage A'dthdnes, 
p. 159. Paris, 1675. 
(5) See Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin's Pursuits 
in_gr<?r , p. 1 2. Loud. 1 a 1 1 . 
