94 JOURNEY TO CITH^RON 
On Monday afternoon, December the seventh, 
being the fourth since our arrival, we left 
Journey to rjpj ^ ^^ ^j^^.^^ o'clock, bv the Gate ofElectra\ 
Scpiaiaa. p^rsuing the route marked out by Pausanias, as 
leading towards Mount CiTHyEiiox and Plat.ea, 
in the hope of finding some vestiges of that 
city; no rem^ains of it having hitherto been 
discovered. Leaving the town, there is an 
aqueduct, in the wall of which we sav/ a has- 
relief representing an equestrian figure, with 
one of his horse's fore feet resting upon the 
marble cylinder of a well, as in the act of 
striking it with his hoof. This evidently 
alludes to the Boeotian story of the Hippocrene 
fountain, produced where the earth was struck 
by the hoof of Bellerophori's horse Pegasus^; 
and it confirms what the author has elsewhere 
said of the antiquity of those massive marble 
'BXiKT^et;. Pausan. Bceot. c. 8. p. 728. cixt. Kuknii. 
(2) \'\A..Pausun. in Bceotic. c.31. p. 771. — stinCorinth. col. p. 105. 
Tliyifftf yaf tZ frvu Kai ovtoi Xiyovrt to v^aif ayiTyxi Thv yr,v ^lyeiTi tou 
tiatpov; TJJ eyxjj. This Greek fable originated, according to Bocliart, 
in the corruption of a PhceniciaH word. (l^id. Not. Cletici in Varior, 
Not. Hesiod. p.ZAl. Edit. Robinson. Oxon. 1737. Not. 6. in vac. 
'iirvovK^fivm-) " Phoenicia dixeris, ut rccte Bocharlus eodem loco, pJlCn 
' happigran, quod fontem erumpentem sonat, et corruptum in hippc- 
crcnen, ortum fecit fabuls, quasi esset x^ntn "x-xov, fons equi, seu ab 
*' equo excitatus." 
