CORINTH. 549 
stance of the cellular cavity whence the CHAP. 
. ix. 
water flows appears to have been noticed by 
Pausanias; in whose time it was beautified with 
white marble*. This weeping spring may there- 
fore be considered the same with that which 
he has denominated THE FOUNTAIN OF THE 
NYMPH PIRENE; as it occurs in the road 
leading from Corinth to Lechceum on the Sicyonian 
side of the Isthmus, precisely where that fountain 
was situate. This point being established, we 
might expect to make the fountain a land-mark 
for ascertaining the relative position of other 
objects. But Strabo has given the same name 
to another spring at the base of the Acro- 
corinthus; and Pausanias allows that this was 
not the only fountain called Pirene*. The 
spacious area belonging to the fortress where 
the Doric pillar lies, relates to a structure so 
(4) Faus. ibid. The water of this spring was said to be #n7r Su. Upon 
these words Kuhnius adds the following note : " Unde ex hoc fonte 
aguam petelant in usus domesticos puellte Corinthiorum, utipatet exemplo 
La'idos adhuc puella u$pai5<rjj ivo rnf Tlufoiif ; lib. xiii. Athencn. 
Idem hie hb.ii. defontis hujusaqud: frtttpva-as re ixo <rns It Kopifeu Haavm 
x*x)i.ovf<t.ittif v$ai, xotifeiTi^ trayraiy lu^oi TUI XXTCC <rt! 'EXXaJa, quum O(i 
libram exegissem, inquit, aquam Pirenes fontis Corinthii, levissimam earn 
omnium in told Gratia deprehendi." Vid. Annot. Kuhnii in Pan*. 
lib. ii. c.3. p. 117. Lips. 1696. 
(5) Vid. Pans, in Corinth, c. 5. p. 122. ed. Kuhn. Strabon. Geog. 
lib.viii. p. 550. ed. O.ron. 
