ATHENS. 319 
Under this last appellation. Gidlletiere affirms CHAP. 
positively, that the principal mosque in the . _^1 , 
lower city was the Pantheon 5 , and afterwards ^cTuttT 1 
describes it as superior to that of Rome. A of this 
Building. 
recent traveller 6 applies the name, and with 
more reason, to an edifice described by Stuart 
as the Poikile 1 , and by Wheler as the Qlympieum*. 
In this imperfect state of our knowledge with 
regard to the real history of these pillars, as of 
many other antiquities in Athens, the author 
would leave the question to be decided by 
error of the transcriber of Zygomalas's Letter, or in an error of the 
press : jru.ihn being written for xatfwui The words are: "Ti xavttoi: 
tixe&tfiili, vixurtfi itiaiti e'nco^oftci; : y\ws<ru; Ixro; 2< -jr&fn; Ttjf otxoooftiif 
i%evfai raif Ivvtyttf 'EAX^niiv: xaJ ruuree, rxf tilat.;. Ipsuni Pantheum : 
quod est aedificium, aliis omnibus excellentius : in quo extra circum- 
quaque historise Grwcorum sculptae sunt, et quidem divintE." (Vid. 
Turco-Grcecia, lib. vii. p. 430. Basil. 1583.) The author is here evi- 
dently describing the Parthenon; and, as he afterwards mentions the 
horses of Praxiteles, " ivtivu vnt piyfan; *v\nt (supra maguam portam)," 
it is not very probable that he believed the building to be the Pantheon 
ef Hadrian; unless, indeed, he alluded to the horses which were on each 
side of the Propylaa. 
(5) "Jlya trois mosque'es & Athenes : une dans le chasteau, qui 
est 1'incomparable temple de Minerve ; et deux dans la ville, dont la 
principale est le fameux Pantheon, qu' Adrian y fit bastir." Voyage 
d'dthenes, p. 156. Paris, 1675. 
(6) Mr. fVilkins. See the Plan engraved for the Work about to be 
published by Mr. PTalpole, on Parts of Greece, Asia, and Egypt, from 
the AfS. Journals of Travellers in the Levant. 
(1) Antiq. of Athens, vol.1, c.5. p. 37- Land. 1763. 
(8) Journey into Greece, Book V. p. 892. Land, 1682. 
