VIII 
290 FROM TITHOREA, 
CHAP, signifying the City of the Serpent, to one of those 
popular tales that were common in Greece. 
They related, that a wealthy citizen, wishing to 
conceal his infant heir from the fury of his 
enemies, hid him within a vase^\ where a wolf, 
attempting to devour the child, was repulsed 
by a serpent which had coiled itself around the 
vessel, and guarded the infant. The father 
coming in search of his child, and perceiving 
the serpent, hastily threw his dart at it, and 
killed both the serpent and his son. Over- 
whelmed with affliction for his loss, which was 
aggravated upon hearing from some shepherds 
of the serpent's guardianship of the infant, he 
caused their two bodies to be consumed upon 
one pile, and consigned their ashes to the same 
sepulchre-; — and from that time the city was 
called Ophite A. It was near to the Cephhsus^, 
and to Mount (Eta : corresponding therefore, 
as to its situation, with the position of Dadi^ 
pronounced Thathi. There was at Ampiiiclea 
a Temple of Bacchus, wherein persons afflicted 
with sickness were received, to pass the night. 
{\) '"E; ayyiTot. Pausan. lib. x. C.33. p. 834. ed. Kuhn. 
(2) Ibid, 
(3) Tlasa rnv Unfirroj trcrxu'o/. Hai'dcti Hist. lib. viii. f. ;i3. 
ed. Gronoc. 
