ATHENS. 309 
have reference to the word Aa/pyv, in one of its CHAP. 
cases. Bacchus bears the title of D&mon \ . .y . / 
throughout the Eacchce of Euripides*. With 
regard to the Crypt which is behind the Monu- 
ment of Thrasyllus, by some called the Cave of Origin of 
Bacchus, and now a Greek chapel bearing the 
appellation of Panagia Spiliotissa, or the Blessed 
Lady of the Grotto, it is decidedly mentioned by 
Pausanias ; and his allusion to it, added to the 
description which he gives of its situation, 
serves to identify the THEATRE. lie says it 
contained a tripod, with the figures of Apollo and 
Diana, represented as destroying the children 
of Niobe*. But its more antient history may 
possibly refer to an earlier period than that of 
the CHORAGIC GAMES of the Athenians, and to 
customs which existed in Attica long before the 
institution of the Dionysia. That it ought not 
to have been considered as necessarily asso- 
ciated with the structure now placed before it, 
_ , -__ _ 
(3) 'O ^aiftcav, i Ajey fa."!;. V. 417. 7t* $a!ftif ttffQigu* >v. V. 256. 
^ayivra tivirdi; ^atiftota. v. 42. ifiQattis ^aufi-ui ftanrtTf. V. 22. (Camfi. 1694.) 
*. r. X. The Greek Writers, and especially the Poets, use the word 
Au'iuta* as applied to a G'>d, or Goddess. 
(4) EN AE THI KOPY*HI TOY 0EATPOY, OTHAAtON EJTIN EN TAIS HETPAI1 
'vno THN AKPOnOAIN. T^'ivov; St ivifrt nai Ttury. 'AraXXwv J i ctorlf 
MO} *Afrtfut rw; XOUOK; tifit avcufeuiris rot's N'/3j|. Pausanite Attica, ,c 21. 
p. 49. Lips. 1696. 
