346 LARISSA. 
there are monasteries. In the street near to 
the bishop's house we saw the capital of a Doric 
pillar; and such detached fragments are all 
the remains we could find of the Temples^ of 
this famous city. But many more considerable 
relics of its antient splendour may exist, and 
would be brought to light, if we were permitted 
to enter the courts and mosques of the intolerant 
Turks, who hold the supreme rule here, and 
oppose every inquiry of this nature. Before 
we quit the subject of the antient Larissa, it may 
be proper to remark, that, owing to the number 
of cities to which this appellation was common, 
some confusion has been introduced into the 
geography of Greece. And this seems also to 
have happened among the Romans; for Livy 
makes a careful distinction® between the nohle 
city of Thessaly, of this name, and another, 
called Larissa Cremaste: yet how often have 
they been confounded by the moderns ! Livy 
(n " Vidit prima tuae testis Larissa ruiniE 
Nobile, nee victum fatis, caput : omnibus ilia 
Civibus eflfudit totas per moenia vires 
Obvia ceu laeto prasmittunt munera flentes : 
Pandunt templa, domos." 
Lucani Pharsal. Uh.\\\, trr. 712. /?. 224. Lips.\126. 
(2) " Larissamque, non illam in Thessalia nobilem urbem, sed 
alteram, q\iSLm Cremasten\ocsiUt," Livio, lib, xxxi. c.46. torn. 111.^.49. 
ed. Crevier. 
