TO THE STRAITS OF TIIERMOPYL.^. :^03 
Cnemis, above which, at an equal distance of ^^{\l'' 
twenty stadia {zccroi rrjv fjusoroyociuv) , Tiironium '— "" ' 
was situate ; and there may have been the 
inscription to which Meletius alludes". 
We now set out upon the most interesting 
part of all our travels, — an expedition to the 
Straits of Thermopylae: and we began the 
day's journey with increased satisfaction, be- 
cause we had already observed, that, in quitting 
the usual track of travellers by the coast, we 
were actually following the antient military ivay, 
mentioned by Livy, as it was prepared and 
paved by the States of Greece for the passage 
of their armies ; and, consequently, that we 
were now treading in the footsteps of those 
Spartans who with Leonidas guarded this defile 
at the invasion of Xerxes. The remains of the 
old paved road will long continue ; because it 
is the common practice of passengers to avoid 
this pavement ; preferring an easier path, by 
the side of it. Although the whole of this road 
be a descent from Bodonitza, we nevertheless 
continued to proceed at a considerable height 
(2) Vid. Stralon. Geogj. lib. ix. pp. 617, 618. ed. Oxon. See also 
U>v Thronium, what Pausanins says in his Eliacs, cap. 22. p.435- 
tJ. Kiihnii. 
