228] DELPHI. 
CHAP, thev had buried the seven Turks: and this was 
VI. *' 
V .y- .^ now closed. A very remarkable passage occurs 
in Stephanus of Byzantium, which may possibly 
still lead to the discovery of the place. He 
says, there was at Delphi an Adytum, con- 
structed oijive stones, the work of Agamedes and 
Trophonius\ Amidst the Cyclopean masonry of 
the city, it is therefore possible that the remains 
of this gigantic structure may yet be found. 
They will of course be sought for in the middle 
of the city ; for the same superstition existed 
concerning Delphi that now belongs to Jeru- 
salem; namely, that it stood in the middle of 
the whole earth: and the naveP of the earth 
was shewn in the midst of the Temple of Apollo, 
as it is in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. 
Near to a fountain, and a church, called that of 
inscrip. St. Nicholo, wc fouud an inscription upon 
suNichoio. marble, in honour of the Emperor Hadrian, 
stating that "the council of the amphic- 
TYONS, UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE 
PRIEST, MESTRIUS PLUTARCH, FROM DELPHI, 
COMMEMORATE THE EMPEROR." 
(1) "TL^Stt TO uhurav Ik vr'iiTt KccnfKiuairrai XiSaiv, 'i^yoi 'Ayuft^otu: *«» 
r^a^untu. Slepk. De Urbib. p. 229. Ed. Gronov. Amst. 1678. 
(2) Vid. Strahon. Geo*, lib. ix. p. 608. ed. Oxon. 
