TO NEAPOLIS. 9 
Besheic can be no other than the BoLBiEAN: chap. 
and having- this clue to its history, it becomes ' 
a most interesting object to every literary tra- 
veller; being thus, at once, guided to the 
Valley or dale of Arethusa, to the situation of "^'"^^^ "^ 
the town of the same name, and to the Tomb 
OF Euripides, which the Macedonians would 
not suffer to be violated, that the Athenians 
might be gratified by the possession of his 
bones*. The Bolb.ean Lake is mentioned 
by Scylax^ as being between Arethusa and 
Apolloxia. The same lake is also noticed 
by Aristotle. These are perhaps ail the allusions 
to it in antient history : but with regard to the 
Tomb of Euripides, our mformation is copious Tomboy 
'- EuniPiDEs. 
and decisive. A whole host of authors may be 
cited to determine the position of this most 
. (4) " Is cam in Macedonia apud Archelaum regem esset, atque 
uteretur eo rex familiariter ; rediens nocte ab ejus coena canibus a 
xiuodam aemulo immissis dilaceratus est: et ex his vulneribus mors 
secuta est. Sepulchrlm autem ejus, et memoriam Macedones, eo 
dignati sunt honore, ut in glorise quoque loco praedicarent. OuiraTt 
<ro» fit^/ia 'Ev^i'Ti^yi; aXiro vov. (aut, ut ostent. MS. Francq. ap. Wes- 
seling. in Itin.Hierosol. oS Ton cot /ivnfio. 'Elgfrl^n oXmro vau.) Quod 
cgregius poeta morte obit& sepultus in eorum terrA foret. Quamobrem 
cum legati ad eos ab Atheniensihus missi petissent ossa Athenas in 
terram illius patriam permitterent trausferri; maximo consensu 
Macedones in e;i re dencgandA perstiterunt." Auli Gellii lib. xv. 
cap, £0. p. 409. ed. Delph. Paiis, 1681. 
(5) 'A^ifovfa 'EA.Xji»/f, BaA/3« Xi/i'm, ' A.T»XXavia, 'EXXtivii- Scylacri 
Cart/andensis Periplus, p. Go. cd. Gronov. L. Bat. 1697. 
