612 ELEUSIS TO ATHENS. 
CHAP, is supposed to be alluded to by Pausanias as 
marking the site of a Temple of Venus 1 ; and 
presently, in the very centre of the defile, 
we noticed a large antient Tomb*, and arrived 
Monastery at the Monastery of Daphne, whose romantic 
ot Daphne, . . , . , 
situation and picturesque appearance, in the 
midst of rocks and overshadowing pines, has 
been a theme of admiration amongst all tra- 
vellers. Part of its materials are said to have 
been derived from the ruins of the Temple of 
Venus, now mentioned. The Monastery itself 
seems to occupy the situation assigned by 
Hieronof Pausanias to a Hieron, containing the images 
of Ceres, Proserpine, Minerva, and Apollo', and 
which had been originally consecrated to the 
last of these divinities 3 . We found the building 
in a ruined state, and altogether abandoned. 
Our Ambassador had already removed some of 
the antiquities which the place formerly con- 
tained; but we saw some broken remains of 
Ionic pillars of white marble, and other frag- 
ments of architectural decorations, whose 
(1) MfTa Si revra 'Affirm *( lirn, xa) w^a avrau n7%i( it^yut >.i#ut (toe; 
/. Puusan. Attic, c. 37. p. 91. ed. Kuhnii. 
(2) Pausanias mentions the rdftf of Theodectes, of Phaselitas, and 
Mnetitheus ; and other monuments remarkable for their magnitude and 
the magnificence of their construction. Ibid. p. 90. 
(3) Jbid. 
