PLAIN OF MARATHON. 25 
oiihQ Aihenians: others have pretended that it chap, 
IS the Sepulchre of the Platieans. The Stehc ^ -[. > 
upon its summit have long disappeared. It is 
one hundred and eighty feet in circumference, 
when measured at the base; and the distance 
from the base to the vertex, measured along 
the surface of the cone, equals thirty feet. The 
account given by Pausanias is plain and decisive ; 
and it seems clearly to prove that this is the 
Tomb of the Athenians; for the other monu- 
ments, mentioned by him as being near to that 
Sepulchre, may also be observed; as will pre- 
sently appear. The name which he uses, 
applies forcibly to this Tumulus: he does not 
call it Mvr,(j(.cc, but Tu,<po<; ; a word still retained 
in the modern appellation Tepe, which is given to 
every antient tomb of this form throughout the 
country. Its situation is moreover pointed out; 
for he says, tl.at it stood \v ra> 'Trihico.^ Having 
therefore the words of Fausanin.s' as our guide, 
and viewing this conspicuous Tumulus upon the 
Plain, it is impossible to believe that it can be 
any other than what he terms it, TAttos 
AGHNAinN. His account of Marathon is one 
(l) Taipi; SI £v Tu Tio'iu 'A('/,vcciaiv sctJv, It] cl aur-Z irT~,>~K, to. I'^'.f/.'j'.ra. <rav 
f/.rafcciitruv xeerx <pvXus ixufruv. Pans. Jtlic. c. 32. p. 79. ed. Kuhnii. 
J.ips. 1G96. 
