GROVE OF THE MUSES. 125 
MOriElA, or Games sacred to the Muses; chap. 
III. 
(-which Pausanias says were celebrated near »^«.^,^ — > 
A Grove, upon Mount Helicon) ; and contain- oS'"" 
ing the names of the conquerors in those J""'^'.^p" 
games, when AuRELIUS CaLLICLTANUS the andGrot,e 
SON OF SoTERICHUS WAS PRESIDENT, ANdAuRE- Muses,^^- 
cerlained. 
Lius MusERos WAS Archon. This inscription 
therefore, added to other circumstances of col- 
lateral evidence, which we shall subsequently 
adduce, satisfied us of the propriety of the 
route we had chosen : it had already conducted 
us to THE Fountain Aganippe, and to the 
Grove of the Muses. These land-marks being 
ascertained, the guidance afforded by Straho 
and by Pausanias is sufficient for the rest. The 
rivulet below becomes at once the Permessus, permessus. 
named from the parent of Aganippe ; called 
Termessus by Pausanias^; and flowing, as he 
describes it, in a circuitous course, from Mount 
Helicon. Both the fountain and the river were 
sacred to the Muses. JVheler calls this rivulet 
Termessus, and very accurately describes its 
course, as beheld by him from the ruined tower 
at Panaja. He considered Panaja as having been 
antiently Ceressus, a citadel of the Thespians. 
(l) Paii^nn. Bccot. c. 29. p. 7fi6. ed. K»hn. 
