TO NEAPOLIS. 27 
which is within a small cavern : there are chap. 
steps leading down to it. The situation of 
Amphipolis, the origin of its name, and the 
date of lis foundation, are so decidedly fixed by 
Thucydides, that it would be idle to attempt 
proving its position elsewhere: if it had not 
been for this circumstance, the antiquities we 
found afterwards at Orphano might have 
induced us to suppose that Amphipolis was 
there situate^. But the testimony of Thucydides 
is here doubly valuable ; because, in addition 
to his characteristic adherence to truth, he 
has himself told us that he was summoned, 
during the Peloponnesian war, to the relief of 
Amphipolis; before it surrendered to Brasidas, 
ihe Lacedaemonian general'. Of all authors, 
therefore, he is the most likely to afford 
accurate information respecting this city: it 
was owing to his failure in the expedition that 
he was doomed to the exile in which he wrote 
his history. According to Thucydides, it was 
a colonial city of the Athenians, situate near 
(2) An inscription, with the name of the people of Jmphipolis, has 
also been observed at Orphano. 
(3) Tlifi'Touiri ( ) l*< Ton 'in^ov ffT^ocrnyov rov It) Q^xxtif, 0OTKT- 
AIAHN To» 'OXopov, "OS TAAE STNErPA^EN, ovr» Tt^c Qaa-ov, ( ) 
xiXtueirts ff^iffi lionh7i. Thucydidis Hist. lib. iv. c. 104. p. 273. edit. 
Hudsoni. Oxon. 1696. 
