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CHAP, their meals by its refreshing current. This is 
more fully stated by Fitruvius, from whom Plini/ 
borrowed his account'. Ammianus Marcellinus 
minutely describes its situation in the Falley of 
jirethusa ^ Other authors, as Plutarch ^ describe 
it (crs^; ' A^i&ii(rav) near to Arethusa ; which 
may be reconciled to the preceding statement 
of its situation at Bromtscus; for TVesseling 
affirms, that the two places were near to each 
other*. If we had been allowed leisure for 
the inquiry, we should not have despaired of 
finding a monument, described as to its situ- 
ation under circumstances of such precision ; 
especially as it may have been observed by 
(1) " Non minus in Macedonia, quo loci sepultus est Euripides, dextri 
ttc sinistra monumenli, advenientcs duo rivi concurrunt in unum : 
accumbentes viatores pransitare sclent, propter aqua: honitatem ; ad 
rivufli autem. qui est in altera parte monumenti, nemo accedit, quod 
mortiferam aquam dicitur habere." Vitruvius de Architect, lib. viii. c. S. 
p. 163. Am St. 1649. 
(2) " Ex angulo tamen orientali Macedonicis jungitur collimitiis per 
arctas pracipitesque vias, qua cognominantur Acontisma : cui proximii 
Akkthusa convallis et static, in qua visitur Euripidis sepclchruh 
tragoediarum sublimitate conspicui, et Stagira, nbi Aristotelem et 
Tullius ait, fundentem aureum flumen, accepimus natum." Ammianus 
Marcellinus, lib. xxvii. cap. 4. p. 527. ed Gronov. L. Bat. 1693. 
(3) Kai ra(p(vTi rris Maxiiaviaf vrifi ' A^iSauvav. Plut. in Numa, tom. I. 
p. 59. Lutet. Paris. 1624. 
(0 "Viciuae Aritliusa et Bormiscus seu Bromiscus fuerunt." 
rFesselitigii Xnime^dv. in li'ia. Hierosoli/mit. p. 605. Amst. 1735. 
