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monument: and a very curious discovery may CHAP. 
be reserved for future travellers in the majestic 
sepulchre of Herodes himself; who was here 
interred 3 , with the highest obsequies and most 
distinguished honours that a grateful people 
could possibly bestow upon the tomb of a 
benefactor, who spared no expense for them 
while he was living, and every individual of 
whom participated in his bounty at his death*. 
A little eastward of the STADIUM are the 
Vestiges of the Temple of Diana 4gr&a. 
Having again crossed the llissus, we observed, 
near to its northern bank, some remains which 
Stuart and others have considered as those of 
the Lyceum. Hence we proceeded toward the 
(3) The funeral of Herodes Atticut must have afforded one of the 
most affecting solemnities of which History makes mention. He was 
seventy-six years old when he died : and in the instructions which he 
left for his interment, he desired to be buried at Marathon, where h 
was born ; but the Athenians insisted upon possessing hi? remains, and 
they caused the youth of their city to bear him to the Stadium 
Panathenaicum, which he had built ; all the people accompanying, and 
pouring forth lamentations as for a deceased parent. 'Aftireuti, <ra,~; <r 
tffi* a.yru.aa.i'riti *t afro niiyna.1, rgte 
(Philostratus in ejus Vita, Sophist, lib.i'i. Lips. 1709.) What a sub- 
ject for the pencil of a Raphael ! Historical painters sometimes 
complain that every event iu'antient history has been already handled : 
here is one, at least, to which this complaint is not applicable. 
(4) He bequeathed to every Athenian a sum nearly equal to three 
pounds of our money. 
