XI 
446 THESSALONICA. 
CHAP, appearance, rising in a theatrical form, upon the 
side of a hill surrounded with plantations of 
Cyprus and other evergreen trees and shrubs. 
The houses are generally built of unburned 
bricks, and, for the most part, they are little 
better than so many hovels. The citadel stands 
in the higher part of the semicircular range from 
the shore ; and there is a bastion, with a battery, 
at either extremity of the arc towards the sea, 
but no fosse on the outside of the walls'. 
Cassander changed the name of this city from 
Therma to Thessalonica, in honour of his wife, 
the daughter of Philip Amyntasy and a sister of 
HER AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND CONSTRUCTED THIS TOMB FOR HER AND 
HIMSELF ; THAT HE MIGHT HAVE IT WHEREIN TO REST TOGETHER WITH 
HIS WIFE ; LOOKING FORWARD TO THE TERM OF LIFE WOVEN FOR HIM 
BY THE INDISSOLUBLE THREADS OF THE FATES." 
TValpole^s MS. Journal. 
We shall subjoin a copy of this beautiful Inscription, in the common 
Greek characters : 
Oi T xvrS fAiroTTttrSiv ofrui S)(,oi ufttTrecvieSxt 
2i(y (ptXifj %vyui u>^o^a) tciKXae-fiDioi xvrS 
Ti^fA i<ri^uv fiiorcv oiXvTOK; vTrevtif^xc-t f<,oi^uy. 
(l) Beaujmtr, to whom the author confesses that he has been 
indebted for additions made to his own Notes, says of its fortifications, 
" Dans r^tat actuel, elle est ouverte k la plus-foible escadre ; et tout 
vaisseau arm^ en guerre peut y entrer, et de-la canonner la plac-2, qui 
n'a pas, pour se defendre, quatres canons montes, et pas un canonnier 
qui sache pointer." Felix Beaujour Comin. dela Grece, torn. I. p. S8. 
ParUy 1800. 
