VALE OF TEMPE. 373 
admitting, perhaps, this easy explanation, that chap. 
" every soldier is not a Ccesar." ., ,-., / 
L CASSIVS LONGIN 
PRO COS 
TIMPI MVNIVIT 
It is, however, a valuable inscription; because 
the geographical position of Tempe was not 
before so completely ascertained : for a long- 
time it remained a matter of doubt and dispu- 
tation. Pocoche was entirely ignorant of its Former 
'' ^ notions of 
situation': not that he neglected to make the Tkhm. 
distinction between the Valley and the Defile^ 
but that he knew of neither, as applicable to 
Tempe. This has been satisfactorily proved by 
a writer, who has published the most ingenious 
dissertation upon the subject that has yet 
appeared ; and who, without visiting Greece 
himself, accurately ascertained the situation of 
the place; and moreover shewed, that Pocoche 
actually passed through Tempe, without knowing 
where he was*. In his observations upon 
(1) See Pocoche' i Description of the Easl, vol. II. Part II. c. 7. 
p. 152. Land. 1745. 
(2) See " Miscellaneoui Sk ichcs, or Hints for Essays," (addressed by 
a Father to his Daughter,) written by Arthur Browne, Esq. Fflluw of 
Trinity College, Dublin, Lontl. 1798. They ure contained in a work, 
little known, " the result of thoughts which occurred in a long and 
solitary 
