ATHENS. 343 
HYMETTUS", intending to visit the summit of CHAP. 
the mountain. Having taken with us horses, a 
guide, and provisions for the day, we left 
Athens for this purpose, at sun-rise ; Signer H y mcltu - 
Lusieri being of our party. In our way, we 
crossed the Ilisstis; and again passing the Sta- 
dium, we visited a small Greek chapel toward 
the east, upon the top of a hill. This building 
was alluded to in the preceding Chapter, as Temple of 
marking the site of the Temple of Diana Agrcea, 
or Agrotera. We saw here the remains of 
columns of three distinct orders in architecture ; 
the most antient Doric, the /onz'c, and the Corin- 
thian. It is rather the situation of the building, 
with reference to the line of observation pur- 
sued by Pausanias*, than any specific part of 
its remaining antiquities, which may be relied 
upon, as denoting where this temple of Diana 
(2) " Many places in Gretce preserve their antient names : others 
retain them with slight alteration ; as, Elimbo for Olympus ; 
Lyakoura for Parnassus, from Lycorea the antient city upon that 
mountain : others bear appellations imposed on them by the Venetians 
and Genoese : but no instance has occurred of a more singular meta- 
morphosis in Grecian nomenclature than in the name of HVMETTUS. 
The Venetians, who called it Monte Hymetto, corrupted it into Monte 
Malta: Matto signifies mad; and the Modern Greeks have chosen to 
translate the two words literally, by Trelo-Founi, * the Mad Moun- 
tain."' fValpole's MS. Journal. 
(3) Vid. Pausan. mAlticis, c. 19- p. 44. Edit. Kuhnii. Lips. 1696. 
