VALE OF TEMPE. 375 
Tempe ; which was a place in Bocotia, from the chap. 
fable of Cijcnus: but the Tempe usually meant >, .^. ., 
by tlie Poets was in Thessalv ; and both 
Horace and Ovid distinguish it from the others, 
by calling it Thessala Tempe*. And in 
flrgiTs fourth Gcorgic'" we have PeneiaTempe. 
Theocriius also speaks of KATA IlENEIfl, KAAA 
TEMOE. 
The descriptions o^iven of Tempe by Pliny^, Descrip- 
^ <=> . tions given 
by Mlian\ and by Livu^, all concur in repre- oiTempt 
. . . byantient 
senting it as a narrow, beautiful, wooded, rocky authors, 
glen, with a sounding river flowing through the 
bottom, between steep and lofty banks, along 
which there was a narrow difficult pass. Ca- 
tullus describes it as surrounded by super- 
impending woods ^ According to Herodotus, it 
was an entrance {i<T(3o\t]) from Lower Macedonia 
into Thessaly, by the Peneils, and between 
(4) Ibid, lib.ii. ver. 227. Horat. lib. i. od. vii. 
tg\ " Pastor Aristaeus fugiens Pe/iej'a Tempe" 
(6) Hist. Nat. lib. iv. c. 8. torn. I. p. 212. L. Bat. 1635. 
(7) Hist. Var. lib. iii. c. 1. 
(8) Hist. lib. liv. c. 6. torn. III. p. 684. Paris, 1738. 
(<>) — — " viridantia Tempe, 
Tempe, quse sylvae cingunt superimpendentes." 
CaluUi Carm, Ixiii. ver. 285. p. 311. edit, ^wrmanni, I'aUv. 1T3: 
