LEBADEA TO ORCHOMENUS. 185 
several small channels, whereby it is rendered chap. 
very beneficial to the inhabitants, in watering a ^ 1 
number of gardens and cotton-grounds. 
to a 
On Friday, December the eleventh, we set out ^^'^'^^ 
for Orchomexus; proceeding first to the village mailed 
01 Romaiko, bearmg n. n. e. distant one hour 
and three quarters from Lebadea. At the church 
here we saw the most remarkable bas-relief Remarka 
which exists in all Greece, whether we regard the relief.'**" 
great antiquity of the workmanship, or the very 
remarkable nature of the subject rspresented. 
It is executed upon a mass of the blue-and-white 
marble common in the country, and which fre- 
quently occurs among the ruins of Chceronia: 
its length is six feet six inches ; its width two 
feet. The subject represents an aged figure, of 
the size of life, with a straight beard, in a cloak, 
leaning with his left arm upon a knotted staff, 
and offering with his right hand a locust to a 
greyhound ; who is rising upon his hinder feet, 
and stretching himself out, to receive it. Whe- 
ther this figure be intended to represent Hercules 
with the dog of Hades, as mentioned hy Pausani as ^, 
or the shepherd Hesiod, whose tomb existed 
(2) 'Evrosv^A Si »/ Bimre) xiytuait avafinfat t9» 'Hpa»Xia Hyttru Ttv aiiu rev 
*u>a. Paus. Beeotic. c. 34. p. 779. ed. i'uhnii. 
