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204 RUINS OF DAULIS.
anxious to satisfy the curiosity of these poor people, we shewed
them the bottle, which was handed round to all the company, and
no doubt became an object of their wonder, and a topic of their
conversation, for several clays.
These otherwise insignificant anecdotes are introduced merely for
the purpose of giving an insight into the manners of the people.
Daulis is in the diocese of the Bishop of Talando ; but pays tithes
to the Voivode of Libadea.
It stands upon a hill projecting from Parnassos, which rises be-
hind it, in towering majesty. The vicinity of this snow-topped
mountain renders the situation of Daulis intensely cold during the
winter months. No olives grow in its neighbourhood ; and but lit-
tle corn is reaped, or wine made. In the plain, at the foot of the
mountain, are some profitable rice-grounds. The ancient town was
erected on the site, which is at present occupied by the village and
its gardens ; but the buildings extended lower down towards the
plain. Two of the churches are composed almost entirely of anci-
ent blocks and architectural fragments, amongst which I found a
fine inscription on a slab of marble: it is a decree of Titus Elavius
Eubulus, about some land at Daulis, in the time of the emperor
Trajan. On the other side of the same slab is another inscription,
of which I am unacquainted with the purport.
The Acropolis is situated upon an oblong rock above the village;
some part of the walls are in the second style; but it seems to have
been twice almost entirely demolished and rebuilt, the greater part
of the walls being in the third and fourth styles: it was burnt by
Xerxes,1 and again destroyed in the third sacred war, but it was
evidently in existence in the time of Trajan. It was perhaps re-
tained, as a strong hold, after the ruin of the city : Livy2 notices its
strengh—" Daulis, quia in tumulo excelso sita est, nee scalis, nee
operibus, capi poterat/'
> B. 8. c. 35. « B. 32. c. 18.
anxious to satisfy the curiosity of these poor people, we shewed
them the bottle, which was handed round to all the company, and
no doubt became an object of their wonder, and a topic of their
conversation, for several clays.
These otherwise insignificant anecdotes are introduced merely for
the purpose of giving an insight into the manners of the people.
Daulis is in the diocese of the Bishop of Talando ; but pays tithes
to the Voivode of Libadea.
It stands upon a hill projecting from Parnassos, which rises be-
hind it, in towering majesty. The vicinity of this snow-topped
mountain renders the situation of Daulis intensely cold during the
winter months. No olives grow in its neighbourhood ; and but lit-
tle corn is reaped, or wine made. In the plain, at the foot of the
mountain, are some profitable rice-grounds. The ancient town was
erected on the site, which is at present occupied by the village and
its gardens ; but the buildings extended lower down towards the
plain. Two of the churches are composed almost entirely of anci-
ent blocks and architectural fragments, amongst which I found a
fine inscription on a slab of marble: it is a decree of Titus Elavius
Eubulus, about some land at Daulis, in the time of the emperor
Trajan. On the other side of the same slab is another inscription,
of which I am unacquainted with the purport.
The Acropolis is situated upon an oblong rock above the village;
some part of the walls are in the second style; but it seems to have
been twice almost entirely demolished and rebuilt, the greater part
of the walls being in the third and fourth styles: it was burnt by
Xerxes,1 and again destroyed in the third sacred war, but it was
evidently in existence in the time of Trajan. It was perhaps re-
tained, as a strong hold, after the ruin of the city : Livy2 notices its
strengh—" Daulis, quia in tumulo excelso sita est, nee scalis, nee
operibus, capi poterat/'
> B. 8. c. 35. « B. 32. c. 18.