V. 
212 RUINS OF ORCHOMENUS. 
CHAP, from Athenceus, in a Note, sufficiently proves 
that such dials, and so inscribed, existed towards 
the end of the second century : it is also evident 
that the H must have occurred in the same 
situation, among the ten letters, when this epi- 
gram was composed '. 
After leaving the monastery, now called that 
of 'Uhe Holy Virgin^ we found close to it, 
towards the west, the ruin of a structure that 
had been surmounted by a dome of a conical 
form, built with very large stones. The entrance 
still remains entire, but the upper part of the 
(l) When the author, after his return to Englaml, mentiuned tbi* 
circumstance to the late Bishop Horslei/, and shewed to that learned 
prelate a sketch of the dial, it suggested instantly to the miud of th*t 
profound scholar an explanation of the following Greek epigram: 
'£| ufcti fto^ffcui iKaturarui, ai r% (jt.iT aUTKS 
Tfcifi/nairi itiKvufiDicci, ZH0I Xi-yaviri (i^nrtit;, 
Mr. JValpole^ to whom the circumstance was mentioned, introduced 
an etching of the dial, together with the epigram cited by the Bishop 
from the Anthologia, at the end of the Herculensia. It is however an 
illustration that did not escape the erudition of Kircher, who quotes 
Athenceus for the epigram, in his chapter " Dc Horologiis seu Sciathe- 
ricis Veterum," and thus explains it: 
" Sex horae laboribus sufficiunt, sequentes negotiis destinentur, 
Z H I ver6, id est, 7, 8, 9, 10, ccenales vocant. 
Ita ut A, B, r, id est, 1,2, 3, laboribus; A, E, '2. 'J est, 4, 5, C, 
negotiis civilibus ; Z, H, 0, I, denique, id est, 7,8,9, 10, coEnali 
refectioni deputarentur." 
Athanasii Kircheri CEdip.\/Egypliac. tomA\. Pars Altera, 
p. '229. Iiomee,\G53. 
