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526 CEPH1SSIA, SOURCE OF THE CEPHISSOS.
goat, as the word At%uvii, the ancient name of this demos, seems to
have been from A<£, which also signifies a goat. We returned to
Athens the same evening.
In the spring of the year 1805, we traversed Boeotia, Locris, and
Thessaly ; but, in order not to interrupt the present subject, I shall
first proceed with the rest of Attica, through which we made a tour
after our return from Thessaly.
TOUR OF ATTICA.
On the 2d of September, 1805, I quitted Athens in company
with Sir Charles Monck and Mr. Gell, with the intention of going
round the Attic peninsula; and particularly of visiting the ruins of
Thorikos and Sunium.
We took the road to Cephissia; and leaving Anchesmos to the
south, and the village of Padischah to the north, passed through a
narrow slip of the olive grove, and observed three ancient wells cut
in the rock, and some blocks of stone near the road, indicating the
site of ancient habitations.
A little further on, we crossed a small stream, and passed through
the village of Marousi, where some traces of antiquity are to be
seen.
Stuart1 conceives that this was the site of the ancient Athmon,
and of the temple of Diana Amarusia.
Two hours brought us to Cephissia, which still retains its ancient
name; it was in the tribe Erechtheis,2 and one of the twelve towns
of Attica in the time of Cecrops. Most part of the plain between
1 Vol. 3. p. 13. t Harpocrat. Lexic. p. 214.
goat, as the word At%uvii, the ancient name of this demos, seems to
have been from A<£, which also signifies a goat. We returned to
Athens the same evening.
In the spring of the year 1805, we traversed Boeotia, Locris, and
Thessaly ; but, in order not to interrupt the present subject, I shall
first proceed with the rest of Attica, through which we made a tour
after our return from Thessaly.
TOUR OF ATTICA.
On the 2d of September, 1805, I quitted Athens in company
with Sir Charles Monck and Mr. Gell, with the intention of going
round the Attic peninsula; and particularly of visiting the ruins of
Thorikos and Sunium.
We took the road to Cephissia; and leaving Anchesmos to the
south, and the village of Padischah to the north, passed through a
narrow slip of the olive grove, and observed three ancient wells cut
in the rock, and some blocks of stone near the road, indicating the
site of ancient habitations.
A little further on, we crossed a small stream, and passed through
the village of Marousi, where some traces of antiquity are to be
seen.
Stuart1 conceives that this was the site of the ancient Athmon,
and of the temple of Diana Amarusia.
Two hours brought us to Cephissia, which still retains its ancient
name; it was in the tribe Erechtheis,2 and one of the twelve towns
of Attica in the time of Cecrops. Most part of the plain between
1 Vol. 3. p. 13. t Harpocrat. Lexic. p. 214.