il2 REMAINS OF LEUCTRA. " 
CHAP, to have mistaken the ruins of Leuctra for the 
^ remains of another city. They are situate at the 
distance of three hours from Coda \ The ground 
for a considerable space is covered with, im- 
mense fragments of marble and stone ; among 
which the inhabitants have long laboured in vain 
to introduce the plough for the cultivation of the 
soil. We saw them employed in breaking a 
huge has-relief, and labouring hard to remove the 
foundations of antient edifices : but the remains 
of the trophies, temples, and walls of Leuctra 
will resist their utmost unremitted efforts for a 
long time to come. Haifa mile farther on, upon 
the brow of a hill, above the plain of Leuctra, is 
Rimocastri. We continued journeying along this 
plain towards Neocorio; and about two miles 
from Leuctra we passed upon our right the 
Ruins at rcmaius of an antient town, now called Phriay 
^'^^^' whose vestiges are very considerable. It was 
here that Wheler found several inscriptions ; but 
none of them enabled him to assertain the origi- 
nal name of the place^. Near the road was ob- 
served a has-relief representing a human figure 
(I) AtixYVTcn ^s vaifii eures xairk rhv Ik n.Xarxia!» lis Qifvtxs oiiu 
Slrabon. Geog. lib. ix. p. 601. edit. Oxon. 
(a) " We came to some ruins, and old decayed churches, called. 
Pliria; where we also found some inscriptions ; especially one, which 
was a pedestal, dedicated by the town to one Titus Flavius Aristus." 
TVheler's Journ.into Greece, Bookvi, p. 470. Lond. 1682. 
