ATHENS. 331 
the new Athens, and completed by his son CHAP. 
Antoninus Pius 3 . The whole fabric is now 
destroyed, so that even the site of the arcade 
cannot be determined; but the architrave yet 
remains, with that part of the inscription which 
was observed here when Wheler and Spon 
visited the spot : it forms the lintel or top of 
one of the gates, leading toward its antient 
situation, in the present wall of the city 4 . We 
ascended to the commanding eminence of the 
mount, once occupied by a temple of Anchesmian 
Jupiter. The Pagan shrine has, as usual, been 
succeeded by a small Christian sanctuary: it is 
dedicated to St. George. Of the view from this 
rock, even Wheler could not write without 
emotion, " Here," said he 5 , " a Democritus 
might sit and laugh at the pomps and vanities of 
the world, whose glories so soon vanish; or an 
Heraclitus weep over its manifold misfortunes, 
telling sad stories of the various changes and 
events of Fate." The prospect embraces every 
(3) IMP- CAESAR -T AELTVS HADRIANVS- AXTONIXVS- AVG PIV9 
COS' III TRIE POT II PP- AQVAEDVCTVM IN- KOVIS ATHEMS- 
COEPTVM A DIVO HADRIANO PATRE SVO COSSVMMAVIT 
DEDICAVITQVE. 
(4) See the third volume of Stuart's Atliens, as edited by Reveley, 
p. 28. Note (a). Land. 1794. 
(5) Journey iuto Greece, BookV. ]>. 374. Lond. 1682. 
