TO THE RUINS OF CH^ERONEA. 173 
universally bears, at present, the name of 
Lakiira ; it stands, to all appearance, solitary ; 
as if it suffered no other eminence to dispute 
with it the smallest portion of that sanctity, 
which originally extended over every part of 
the mountain '. 
The Ruins of Ch^ronea are on the ivestern visit to^ 
side of this plain : a village called Capranu now °'''™ "' 
occupies part of the site of the antient city; 
distant only two hours, about six miles, from 
Lehadta. The antiquities we discovered, in and i^ui"^ of 
, . . , . Ciiccronea, 
about the village, are decisive as to the city to 
tions. 
which they belonged. The first is an inscrip- inscrii). 
tion respecting the inhabitants of Ch^ronea. 
It was found upon a marble, in the corner of a 
small chapel at Capranu, and proved highly 
interesting to us at the moment of our arrival 
among the ruins of the city. It states, that 
*' THE Senate and People of the Chje- 
ROXEANS HONOUR THE EmPEUOR MaCRINUS." 
AYTOKPATOPA 
MONOAAION 
CEBHPONMAKPEINON 
CEBACTON H BOY 
AHKAIOAHMOC 
XAIPCONECON 
(1) 'U^av^iThs y ifr) tra; i Tlce^airiro;. Strab. Gcog. lib. ix. p. 604. 
ed. Ox- on. 
