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surrounding Grove: victors in the Nemeeean CHAP. 
IX. 
Games received no other reward than a chaplet - T ^ ' 
made of the wild parsley 5 that grew upon its 
margin ; and the herb itself, from the circumstance 
of its locality, was fabled to have sprung from the 
blood of Archemorus, in consequence of whose 
death the spring is said to have received its 
name 8 . We then came to the Ruins of the Temple 
. of the 
TEMPLE OF THE NEME/EAN JUPITER, which form Nemeaan 
a striking object as the plain opens. Three " ; " 
beautiful columns of the Doric order, without 
bases, two supporting an entablature, and a 
third at a small distance sustaining its capital 
only, are all that remain of this once magnificent 
edifice; but they stand in the midst of huge 
blocks of marble, lying in all positions; the 
fragments of other columns, and the sumptuous 
materials of the building, detached from its 
walls and foundations. The mountain Tretus 
(5) Victors at the Nemecean Games, according to Plutarch (in Timoleon.) 
were crowned with parsley said to have sprung out of the blood of 
Archemorus. " This is the very herb," says Plutarch, " wherewith we 
adorn the sepulchres of the dead." The Nemeaan \verefunereal games : 
the Presidents were clothed in black garments. 
(4>) " Una tamen tacitas, sed, jussu numinis, undas 
HOPP quoque secrets mitrit Langia sub umbra, 
Nondum illi raptus dederat lacrymabile nomen 
Archemoruty uec fama Dese." 
Statiiu Thelaid. lib. iv. 
