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inhabitants also pointed out to him their antient chap. 
sepulchres; and many temples^ were standing, < — v— — j 
together with statues, which were at that time uquSes."' 
exhibited as the works of Phidias, of Scopas, 
oi Praxiteles, and of other renowned artists'*. 
" Ogygiis te sorte Creon : Eteoclca mittunt 
Neita?: cclsas Homoloidas occupat Hacmon. 
Hypsea Proitidia; : celsum fudere Dryanta 
Electrs: quatit Hypsistas manus Eurymedontis; 
Culmina magnanimus stirpat Dircaea Menoeceus." 
"^sefu/lus, iu'EcrrkW) Qrfieu;, nominat Prcetidtis, Electras, 
Ne'itidas, 'OyKccUs, pylas, Boreales, Homoloidas, pylas Iiebdo- 
mas. Apollodorus oniissis N^fniT-i numeral 'Oyxa'i^as." 
V. The Gates called Hi/psista, because there was the Hieron of 
the Most-High God (A/o( 'T-^'lirrou). 
VI . The Ogi/g-ian or Gates of Ogyges. This was the most antient 
name of any of the gates of Thebes (al Ji 'Slyuyicct rl ao^ani- 
•retro*). 
vii. The Homolo'ian or Hotnolcean Gates, so called from the 
mountain Homote, This last appellation was considered by 
Pausanias as more recent than any of the others (to ovofne 
nuraroy). 
(3) Vid. Pat«an. Bacotica, cc. 10, 11, 16, 17, 19, &c. ed. Kuhnii. 
(4j The statues of Thebes seem to have been the productions of the 
most celebrated artists of Greece. Their materials, besides stone and 
marble, consisted of bronze, and of cedar. The Thebans had wooden 
statues, so antient, that they were said to have been made from the 
prows of the ships of Cz^mas (Pausan. Bccotica, c. 16. ^.743. edit. 
Kuhnii), Naturalists may have overlooked the very curious notice of 
the Elk, which occurs m Pausanias, after the description he gives of 
the statue of a Triton, and which does not much differ from the no- 
tions now entertained of this rare animal. He says it is found in the 
<.ounti-y of the Celts, and that it is called 'AXx>h {ibid. ]>. 750.) being 
half a stag and half a camel ; of rare occurrence ; and only casually 
taken, iu hunting other wild beasts. 
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