THEBES. 91 
Phoenix appeared upon antient monuments as a chap. 
ni. 
symbol of reviving nature, especially upon the 
Roman medals ^ With so many existing monu- 
ments of the earliest ages of history and poetry, 
thus presented to the notice of a transitory 
traveller, it will not surely be again said that no 
vestige remains of the Boeotian capital: indeed, 
it may be asked, whether any part of Gi-eece 
exhibits a nobler association of sublime and dis:- 
nified objects than was here collected into one 
view? — the living fountain — the speaking sepul- 
chre — the Cadmcean citadel — the Ogygian plain — 
overwhelming the mind with every recollection 
that has been made powerful by genius and 
consecrated by inspiration; where every zephyr, 
breathing from Helicox, and Parnassus, over 
the mouldering fabrics of Thebes, seems to 
whisper, as it passes, the names of Epaminondas 
and Pindar and Homer and Orpheus, 
The next day, December the sixth, there was, as Albanian 
it is usual in the Gj-eek towns, a Sunday market 
for the Albanians; and this enabled us to see 
a great number of them from all parts of the 
country, and to inspect the produce of Boeotia, 
(3) It appears upon the reverse of a medal of Antoninus Pius ; also 
upon a reverse of a medal of Constantine, with this legend, "felix teji- 
POKUM REPARATIO, " 
