344 ATHENS. 
stood. After his visit to the GARDENS, and the 
TEMPLE OF VENUS (m hortis), having mentioned 
the SHRINE OF HERCULES (which was called 
Cynosarges), and the LYCEUM, and being still 
eastward of the STADIUM, he crosses the 
ILISSUS, in that part of it where it received the 
ERIDANUS; here, entering AGRA, or AGR^E', 
immediately upon his arrival at the southern 
side of the river 8 , he notices the TEMPLE OF 
DIANA AGROTERA. No part of his description 
seems therefore involved in less uncertainty 
than his position of this edifice ; which exactly 
corresponds with that of the Greek chapel now 
mentioned. 
Monastery. Hence we proceeded to the Monastery of 
Saliani*, upon MOUNT HYMETTUS. Chandler 
believed this to have been antiently renowned 
as the scene where the jealous Proem met her 
(1) *Ay>(X, *t "Ayfeu, %ti(ttr, iriKu; xau <rXt|ltr<xf. Stephanut. Vid. 
Meurs. lib. de Populis Attica, ap. Gronov. Thesaur. Grac. Antiq. 
vol. IV. p. 683. L.Sat. 1699. 
(2) AtufiZfi Si T Eiiurrtr, %ut!i> 'A-yfxi xaZ.au fttt at, xai *it 'Ayfviff 
ifrlt'Afrift^tf. Paustin. c. 19. p. 45. I.ips. 1696. 
(3) So we believed the name to be pronounced ; perhaps corrupted 
from some ilcrivative of ZA.ii;', Jluctuo; the water here continually 
gushing forth. Wheler calls this place I I agios Kyriani; Chandler* 
Cyriani; and Stuart has written it, in his Map of Attica, Monastery 
of Syria**. 
