280 ATHENS. 
CHAP, for elegance of design and excellence of work- 
manship 1 . 
Among the few articles of Athenian cutlery to 
be met with in the market, we found some 
small knives and forks, with white bone handles, 
inscribed with mottoes in modern Greek, cha- 
racteristic of the manners and sentiments of 
the people; such, for example, as the following: 
'P/a ircwruv 7vv xctxav Itrriv q qtiXct.g'yvgiu, " The 
love of money is the root of all evils" Mrjdiva, 
xtt,ra,<pgovsiv f " You should despise no one." For 
the rest, nothing can be more wretchedly sup- 
plied than Athens with the most common articles 
of use or convenience. The artists employed 
for the British Ambassador were under the 
necessity of sending to Smyrna to obtain a 
wheeled cart for moving the marbles to the 
Pir&eus, and for all the materials and imple- 
ments wanted in preparing cases to contain 
them. No ladders could be found, nor any 
(l) The author has not seen a Dissertation by the Abbe Lami, 
which is cited in a work published by the Society of Dilettanti 
(entitled "Specimens of Antlent Sculpture," I And. 1809.) as con- 
taining proof that the Etruscans (Seethe Observations facing Plate IT.) 
" followed the improvements of the Greeks at a respectful distance, 
and had no pretensions to that venerable antiquity in the Arts which 
has been assigned to them." 
