198 RUINS OF ORCHOMENUS. 
CHAP. same. The Charitesia attracted competitors 
1 -1 . from all parts of Greece; as we shall presently 
inscrip- shew, by inscriptions commemorating victors at 
iiig^to'^tlTe" those solemnities. It was with much delight 
Charitesian ^^^ satisfaction that we were admitted to such 
Games. 
a muster-roll; for within the list we read the 
name of Sophocles, son of Sophocles the 
Athenian, who is recorded as having obtained 
the prize for his talent in Tragedy. He was a 
descendant of the famous Greek tragedian of the 
same name '. These inscriptions are within the 
church or chapel belonging to the monastery. 
There are two of them : they o.ccur upon two 
long slabs of a dark colour, near the entrance ; 
one being on either side of a sort of buttress 
facing the aisle. They are of no other utility 
in the structure than as common building ma- 
terials, for which any other stones of the same 
size might be substituted. Our desire to obtain 
them for the University of Cambridge induced us 
to make an earnest solicitation for the purchase 
of them, to Logotheti the j4rchon of Lehaclea, who 
is the owner of the estate, and whose secretary 
(l) Itf^oxXTiSt Airivttlo;, Tpayixif, xai Xufixit, u^iyovos '''o^ ^'i^"""'^' He 
flourished after the seven celebrated Tragedians. Suidas, lorn. 111. 
p. 350. ed. Cantab. 
