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upon wild Jigs*, and the Arcadians upon acorns*. CHAP. 
The Arrives laid waste the city, and removed 
its inhabitants to their own capital. Pausanias, 
by whom this is mentioned 4 , makes frequent 
allusion to its marvellous walls*, considered by 
him not less entitled than the Pyramids of Egypt 
to rank among the wonders of the antient world 6 
The prodigious masses of which they consist 
were put together without cement; and they 
are likely to brave the attacks of time through 
ages even more numerous than those which 
have already elapsed since they were built. 
Owing to its walls, the city is celebrated in the 
poems of Homer 7 ; and the satisfaction of seeing 
an example of the military architecture of the 
(2) This is rather an argument for their ^Egyptian origin; for 
by the wild fig is probably intended the Plcus Sycomorus, the fruit 
of which is still eaten in Egypt. We did not, however, notice this 
tree in Greece. 
(3) jElian. Hist. Var. lib. iii. c. 3.9. 
(4) 'Antr-mra* St xeu Ti^uifitus 'Apyuoi, ffvie'xov; tr^ffXa^tin, xeii vi "A(<yts 
tffxti&ifeu AXii<rvT. ; ausan. Corinth c. 26. ;>. 169. Lips. 1696. 
(5) Via. Pausan. in Achaic. c. 25. p. 589- in Bceotic. c. 36. p. 783, &c. 
Lips. 1696. 
(6) T ni^ti TO. i Tifotti tuSi *> fy*xv ?yy p*f.fHK, evSi o>r 
vntt Oaiv*T. Ibid. p. 783. Baotic. c. 36. Lips. 1696. 
(7) O? V'Aeyit v i!%n t ^tnfa ft ruxiitrr**- 
Iliad. /B. ver. 559. 
