THEBES. 89 
beneath it. If therefore so accurate a writer as 
Fausanias, being upon the spot, as he declares 
himself to have been*, has, in his description of 
this place, mentioned the contiguity of a sepulchre 
and a fountain near to the public way, we may 
perhaps recognise the objects he has alluded to; 
for this Soros may have been the tomb of 
Hector, and the fountain near to it the CEdi- 
podia'; where, according to the name it 
consequently received, the Thebans maintained 
that (Edipus washed off the blood with which he 
was contaminated, after the murder of his 
father*. It is true that Pausanias uses the word 
7oc(pog to signify the Tomb; and this word he 
generally applies to a Tumulus. There is also 
another tomb mentioned by him as near to the 
i>-a.n\e fountain; but the remarkable representation 
of a Phoenix upon an Obelisk of the Sun, as having 
risen from its ashes, seems to be peculiarly adapted 
(2) The ruins of the house where Pindar lived (the only building 
^h.ch Alejcmi'ler suffered to rejnaiu at the destruction of Thebes) wer« 
shewn to Pausanias : and it is in speaking of a Sacristy, containing a 
iiafwe, contiguous to those ruins, wiiich the inhabitants opened only upon 
one day in the year, that Pausanias alludes to his own Autopsy, in these 
words ; 'Kfici Ss a^iKtirSxi n i^iysyom tw» iifiipuy ravrtiv, xai to ayaXfta 'tSor 
Xihv ov vav TliyriXr.ffi ko.) auro xa) rov ^povot. Pausan. Btxot. C. 25. p. 758. 
ed. Kulmii. 
(3) "E«'t; OS axi "Exrcpo; Qy,(iatoit To.'fo; rroZ Tlpiduau vpof Oliiimi/a xaXti/filfri 
XfAvi). Ibid. p. 74b". 
(4) T^ 3= Oiifyrahioc Kpni» ra otofnx lyUera, en s» ul/r/i* re miua SyisJ-aT* 
Oii'iifoui Tay irxTfiisv ifitau. If'i'd. 
