HIERON. 411 
CrxoRTiuivi; and had been noticed by Telesilla, 
in her poems. We next came to a singular and 
very picturesque structure, with more the 
appearance of a cave than of a building. It was 
covered with hanging weeds, overgrown with 
bushes, and almost buried in the mountain : 
the interior of it exhibited a series of circular 
arches, in two rows, supporting a vaulted roof; 
the buttresses between the arches being propped 
by short columns. Possibly this may have 
been the building which Chandler, in his dry 
way, called " a Church," without giving any 
description of it ; where, besides fragments, he 
found an Inscription to far-darting "Apollo*" He 
supposes the Temple qf Apollo which was upon 
Mount Cynortium to have stood upon this spot. 
Below this mountain, by the northern side of circular 
. Edifice. 
a water-course, now dry, and rather above the 
spot where it discharged itself into the valley, 
is a small building of a circular form, covered 
by a dome, with arches round the top. We 
found a few imperfect Inscriptions, one of 
which mentions Hierophants, or Priests of Mars, 
(2) See the Vignette to this Chapter. The arches may be as old as 
the time of Pausanias. The Inscription mentioned by Chandler is as 
follows: "Diogenes the hierophant, to far-darting dpollo, on account 
of a vision in k>s sleep." Trav. in Greece, p. 225. Oxf, 1776. 
