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marble relics ; and then, 'notwithstanding the 
boast of Statins l , the very site of the consecrated 
games, whether instituted to commemorate 
Hypsipyles loss, or the first labour of Hercules*, 
may become a theme of dispute. Perhaps, 
indeed, the Temple is not of the high antiquity 
that has been assigned to it. The columns are 
said not to bear the due proportion which is 
usually observed in the early examples of Doric 
architecture 3 . This edifice may have been 
erected by Hadrian, when that emperor restored 
to the Nemetfan and to the Isthmian Games their 
original splendour. 
Early this morning, Wednesday, Noveml-er the 
eleventh, we began our journey towards Sicvox, 
now called Basilico; following the course of 
Nrmcttem 
Riv - the Neme&an rivulet. This stream is alluded to 
by Statins, with reference to the fountain before 
(1) " manet ingens gloria Nympham, 
Cum triatem Hypiipylem ducibus sndatus Achais 
Ludus, et atra sacrum recolit Trieteris Ojihe1ten. tr 
Statins, Thebaid. lib. iv. 
(2) According to sElian, lib. iv. e. 5, Hercules transferred to 
Cleonte the honours bestowed upon him l>y the Nemeans, for subduing 
the lion. 
(3) Sir If. Cell makes the diameters of the columns of the peristyle 
equal five feet two inches and a half, and observes that the columns 
are higher in proportion to their diameters than .is usual in the Horit 
Order. See //in. of Greece, p. 23. Load. 1S01. 
