348 LARISSA TO TEMPE. 
o-aiii other information also from this circum- 
stance; for nothing more seems to be necessary 
to explain why the Citadel of Argos in Pelo- 
ponnesus was called Larissa, and the Citadel of 
Larissa in Thessaly was denominated Argos, 
than this circumstance of their similitude as to 
situation and appearance; each of them having 
been constructed upon the top of a high and 
almost inaccessible rock. 
On Wednesday, December the twenty-third, we left 
Larissa, and set out for the Valley of Tempe. 
This name, authorised by a long acceptation, is 
now generally used ; but the Gorge, or De/ile of 
Tempe, would be a much more appropriate ap- 
pellation. That any dispute should have arisen 
among the Moderns as to the situation of the 
place itself, is truly marvellous ; because it 
still preserves its primeval name, pronounced 
Tembi ; and there is no place in all Greece whose 
locality it is less difficult to determine. An 
inscription discovered by us within the de/ile, and 
JuPiTEB was also called Larissaus, not, as some have supposed, from 
this city of Larissa, but from the ^rgive citadel of that name (where 
there was a Temple of Jupiter), as it plainly appears ,from Strabo, 
lib.y'm. Vide Stephanum, lib. de Urlih, p. Aid. Not. 72. edit. GrO' 
novii. Adde Pausuniam (Corinthiacis, c. 25.) See also Chap. \ III. 
Vol. VI. of these Travels, p. 473. Octavo Edition. 
