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224 BATTLE OF CHiERONElA.
A little further in the plain are the remains of two Roman struc-
tures of brick ; perhaps those which contained the two trophies1
erected by Sylla, for his victory over Taxiles and Archelaos, gene-
rals of Mithridates the First. It appears from Plutarch,2 that the
battle commenced at Mount Thurion, which terminates in a pointed
summit anciently called Orthopagon ; having at its base the river
Morios, and the temple of Apollo Thurios.
The Kapourniotes have a tradition that Chaeroneia took its name
from Chaeroneos, who they think was the son of King Plutarch ;
they have also some confused notions of the battle, which they say
was fought by Alexander, whose name is much better known in
Greece than that of his father Philip.
The fountain above-mentioned forms a stream and a marsh, the
mud of which is of a red hue. This is imagined to have been the
spot where the battle raged. A poor shepherd told me that this
was the plain where the Greeks were slaughtered by Alexander ;
and that the place was called from thence, Atpovog o Kctpnos, the Plain
of Blood. Plutarch3 mentions a small river near Chaeroneia called
Haemon, which he supposes to have been originally named Ther-
modon; but which, being filled with blood at the battle, took the
name of Haemon.4 The modern name of the Haemon is Pevpu, which
signifies a stream, that is visible only during the winter. According
to Plutarch,5 several tombs of the Amazons were seen on the banks
of this river. Pausanias6 mentions a river Thermodon near Glisas
in Bceotia.
According to Procopius,7 Chaeroneia, and several other places
in Bceotia, Achaia, and Thessaly, were destroyed by an earth-
quake about the middle of the sixth century.
i Pausan. b. 9- c. 39. * Life of Syllu. 3 Life of Demosthenes. * Alfi01._
5 Life of Theseus. e B. 9. c. 19. ^ De Bello Goth. b. 4. p. 369, of Pans edit.
A little further in the plain are the remains of two Roman struc-
tures of brick ; perhaps those which contained the two trophies1
erected by Sylla, for his victory over Taxiles and Archelaos, gene-
rals of Mithridates the First. It appears from Plutarch,2 that the
battle commenced at Mount Thurion, which terminates in a pointed
summit anciently called Orthopagon ; having at its base the river
Morios, and the temple of Apollo Thurios.
The Kapourniotes have a tradition that Chaeroneia took its name
from Chaeroneos, who they think was the son of King Plutarch ;
they have also some confused notions of the battle, which they say
was fought by Alexander, whose name is much better known in
Greece than that of his father Philip.
The fountain above-mentioned forms a stream and a marsh, the
mud of which is of a red hue. This is imagined to have been the
spot where the battle raged. A poor shepherd told me that this
was the plain where the Greeks were slaughtered by Alexander ;
and that the place was called from thence, Atpovog o Kctpnos, the Plain
of Blood. Plutarch3 mentions a small river near Chaeroneia called
Haemon, which he supposes to have been originally named Ther-
modon; but which, being filled with blood at the battle, took the
name of Haemon.4 The modern name of the Haemon is Pevpu, which
signifies a stream, that is visible only during the winter. According
to Plutarch,5 several tombs of the Amazons were seen on the banks
of this river. Pausanias6 mentions a river Thermodon near Glisas
in Bceotia.
According to Procopius,7 Chaeroneia, and several other places
in Bceotia, Achaia, and Thessaly, were destroyed by an earth-
quake about the middle of the sixth century.
i Pausan. b. 9- c. 39. * Life of Syllu. 3 Life of Demosthenes. * Alfi01._
5 Life of Theseus. e B. 9. c. 19. ^ De Bello Goth. b. 4. p. 369, of Pans edit.