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antiquities it inclosed. " Among the Ruins of CHAP. 
MycencE? says he 3 , " there is a spring called 
Persea, and the subterraneous Cells of Atreus and 
of his Sons, where they kept their treasures : 
and there indeed is the Tomb of Atreus, and of 
all those whom, returning with Agamemnon from 
TROY, j&Zgisthus slew at supper." Cassandra 
being of course included among the number, 
he observes, that this circumstance had caused 
a dispute between the inhabitants of Myceme 
and those of Amy dee concerning the Monument 
(Mv^a) of Cassandra, which of the two cities 
really possessed it. Then he adds, that another 
Monument is also there, that of Agamemnon 
himself, and of his charioteer Eurymedon: and 
he closes the chapter, saying 4 , " The Sepulchres 
of Clyt&mneslra and sEgisthus are without the 
ivalls; not being worthy of a situation where 
Agamemnon and those slain with him were laid." 
From these observations of Pausanias we learn 
(3) MtMe^Kvv ol Iv -roi; lonTiois xgritn <r; if 71 xa.\ivp.\m Tiiyfiiet, 
rta'j.1. ra$o; Si iirri f^ir'AT^iuf, tiri ol not etov; ffiir Ayau'-utoti ijfetwxor-T'Zf If 
'\\iov ^mrrifeti nantpcnufit A*yi<r$ot. Pausan. Corinth, c. 16. p. 147. 
(4) KXwra/^iWTga SI Iratffi xai Alyifffes oX/yy nfaTiya rev ri'i^au;. 
iTAt St ourtfeiufaffa,!, 'Ma, 'Ayitfti^ui <ri wrif laOD *a ei <rv> ixilvy fantu- 
t. Pausan. ut supra. 
