438 PELOPONNESUS. ' 
CHAP, operations, or render it conspicuous for its 
warlike aspect. In every part of Greece there is 
something naturally appropriate to the genius 
and the history of the place ; as in the bubbling 
fountains and groves of EPIDAURIA, sacred to 
Msculapim; the pastoral scenes of ARCADIA, 
dedicated to the Muses and to Pan; the hollow 
rocks of PHOCIS, echoing to Pythian oracles; 
and perhaps the custom of making offerings to 
all the Gods, upon the summits of OLYMPUS and 
PARNASSUS, did not so much originate in 
any Eastern practice, as in the peculiar facility 
wherewith the eye commanded from those 
eminences almost every seat of sanctity in 
Greece 1 . 
(l) The old Grecian custom of uttering the Ku^/i tA.s(ray ("Lord have 
mercy upon us!") and making sign of reverence upon coming in 
sight of any place of worship, is still retained among Greek Christians, 
but particularly in Russia: the Russians use the same expression 
literally translated, " Ghospodi Pomilui!" As the practic- enjoined 
reverence to everv particular shrine, it must necessariU become a 
general homage to all the Divinities, when temples belonging to all 
the Gods were rendered visible at the same time, in the same manner 
as our Cliurc-hes become conspicuous to the common people, who, in 
every Christian country, frequently employ themselves in counting 
them from tlie tops of their hills. Perhaps this may explain the 
beginning of t'.io-t: offerings to all the Gotix which were made by the 
Antient Greeks upon the summits of their mountains ; rather than the 
ridiculous notion of being nearer to their Divinities. The first temples 
were tombs; and these were not upon the tops of mountains, but in the 
plains 
