158 LEBADEA. 
CHAP, hewn stones and pieces of marble : here the 
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* _/ Lebadean women wash their linen ; and at the 
u. 
distance of a few paces from this hath, as before 
stated, is the spot where the river Hercyna 
bursts forth, receiving almost in the instant of 
its birth the tributary streams from \hQ fountain. 
Sources of The rivcr therefore may be described as having 
the Her- 1 ^ • • 1 1 
ajna. two soiirces ; and this agrees with the account 
given of it by Pausanias. The bath was used by 
' those who came to consult the oracle; for these 
persons were obliged to purify themselves, and, 
abstaining from the use of hot baths, to wash in 
the river Hercyna^. Indeed nothing can accord 
more accurately with the present appearance of 
the place than his description of the Hieron; 
Validity and we ought to rely upon it with the greater 
marks by confidcuce, bccausc we receive it from a writer 
always accurate, who in this instance is pre- 
eminently entitled to notice, having not only 
visited the spot, but also himself descended into 
the Adytum, and consulted the oracle. "What 
I HERE RELATE," SayS llC^ " WAS NOT RE- 
CEIVED AT SECOND-HAND, BUT WHAT BY 
OCULAR DEMONSTRATION I HAVE PERCEIVED 
(1) WA. Fausan.in Bceot. c. 39. p. 790. cA. Kuhnii. 
(2) V^aipu Oi ouK ciKoriv, kXXo. STt^iiv; n iiwv Kiu airis T^oiflutiAi ;^j>;?-a- 
fttvt;. Ibid. 
Pautanias. 
