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Acropolis, crowned with all its marble temples. CHAP. 
Thus every object, whether in the face of 
Nature or among the works of Art, conspired to 
elevate the mind, and to fill it with reverence 
towards that BEING "who made and governs 
the world"*; who sitteth in that light which no 
mortal eye can approach, and yet is nigh unto 
the meanest of his creatures; "in whom we 
live, and move, and have our being." 
Within the Peribolus of the AREOPAGUS was 
\hzMonument ofCEdipus, whose bones, according 
to Pausanias 3 , were brought hither from Thebes; 
and the actual site of the altar mentioned by the 
same author may still be seen in the rock. It is 
scarcely necessary to repeat the history of a place 
so well known, and so long renowned for the im- 
partial judgment which was here administered*. 
(2) Acts xvii. 24, 28. 
(3) "Efn Si itrif TOV Ttgio\iv ft.inf>-it O/S/VoSaj. nA.trjay J i*a' at, 
ru ofra Ix. Qr,ui xaut/rtiiTx. Pausan. lib. i. c. 28. p. 69. Lips. 1696. 
(4) Every thing the Reader may wish to see concentrated upon this 
subject, may be found in the Thesaurus Graecarum //ntiqultatum of 
Croiwvius; and particularly in the Areopagus Meursii, as edited by 
him. (Tid. Volum. Quint. /?.2f)71. L. Bat. 1699.) That the Hill 
of the Areopagus was a continuation of the western slope of the 
Acropolis, seems manifest, from the following allusion made to it by 
L.UC1AN. Moiut atfriaiuit l^f "Ajuan crya, [io.\\oi n it; TI ' \K^ifo\ii ulrnt, 
u; it I* TV; -rt^iwrri; Hfta xaTafxtiin vxiru ra, it ry o-jXi/. " Tantum ad 
Areopagum abea-.nus, sen potius in ipsam Arcein ; ut tanquam 6 spe- 
cul.'i, simul onmia, qua; iu urbe, conspiciautur." T id. Ltician. in 
Piscatore, ap Meurs. Areop. c. 1 . Edit. Gronovii. 
