548 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, also the remains of other foundations; possibly 
y - w ~- __ of a bridge or causeway, leading into the area 
on that side. The remarkable fountain before 
mentioned does not here guide us, amidst the 
mazy description of Pausanias, to the original 
name of this building. Corinth was full of 
fountains; there was no city in Greece better 
supplied with water ' ; many of those fountains 
were supplied by means of aqueducts 2 . But if 
we find a passage in Pausanias that seems to 
Fountain allude to the remarkable circumstance of a drop- 
ofthe ... 
Nymph ping spring within a cavern, we may perhaps 
succeed in establishing a point of observation 
for ascertaining other objects in its neigh- 
bourhood. An allusion of this nature occurs 
where he mentions the water of the Nymph 
Pirene, who poured forth such abundance 
of tears for the loss of her son Cenchrias., 
when slain by Diana, that she was metamor- 
phosed into a fountain 3 . Even the circum- 
(1) Kfrjyxt Si iraXXa) fit* 0.10. <rtii iraX;v nxtwrou fxfxi, tin iQtoitv 
fttvrii ffftfir vSarai. Ptius. Cor. C. 3. p. 1 18. ed. Kukri. "Er-i Si xz> 
<rSt Qftaruv toxoet* xaru. TIII *<. Strabvn. Geog. lib. viii. p. 550 
etLOxon. 
(2) The Emperor Hadrian brought water to Corinth from Stymphalus, 
written Stemphylus in the edition of Pausanias above cited. Vid. Pau$ f 
Cor. ut supra. 
(3) Mira T avre ittboi ifn rrtt Tln^ifs if ri vlaa. 'E-ri Si aury \iyturn, 
i>i it Tlfiawti yiisir i>* tatguvr ij cttlotu-rau vrnyii, roi rrS* Siuftftim 
{(' vyct 'Aor'iftiZts axtufnt ifetuiitra.* PJ.US. ibid. p. 117. 
