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affected by any lapse of time. It is useless to c **** 
refer to Strabo upon this occasion, because he 
was not upon the spot; but Pausanias, as 
cujroKTTig , coming from Mycence to Argos, before 
he arrives at the Inachus, mentions the Hieron 
of Ceres Mysias ; containing one of those curious 
temples of which we discovered some remains 
in Epidauria ; (Nao? OTTJJ? vXfvdou) not merely a 
temple roofed with baked tiles (for it stood within 
another building originally itself roofed, although 
in ruins when Pausanias saw it), but actually 
a terra-cotta temple. The fragments of this 
building may yet be discerned ; although we 
could find no part of it so entire as the beau- 
tiful terra-cotta cornice and frieze we had been 
so fortunate as to discover in Epidauria. Thence 
entering Argos, by the Gate of Lucina, the same 
author notices in the lower city, as the most 
conspicuous* of all the temples., that of Apollo 
Lycias. Afterwards, it is difficult to enumerate 
all the other temples mentioned by him, because 
we do not distinctly know what he intends by 
the word 'legov, as distinguished from Nao?. 
Thus, for example, he mentions the mostjantient 
(2) 'E*/avw-rry. lib. ii. c. 19. p. 152. eel. Kuhnii. 
