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5S2 TEMPLE OF CERES.
Herodotus1 mentions a Delphic Oracle, in which the Arcadians
are termed BaXocvyi^ayoi.
Acorns were the food in Epiros, according to Virgil f and accord-
ing to Strabo,3 the same was the case in Spain.
Pausanias4 asserts, that the acorn, which was eaten by the Arca-
dians, was produced by a particular kind of oak, called Qyyog.
According to Swinburne,5 the acorn of the ilex is still the food of
the common people in some parts of Spain. It is probable however
that the BaXuvoi of the Greeks, which the Latins called Glandes, are
sometimes meant for chesnuts; and according to Gronovius, chesnuts
are called " ZxpSiuvovg QuXavovg," by Diphilus.
In the north of Italy the poorer people subsist almost entirely on
chesnuts; and on the mountains of Signi, in the Roman state, they
are so plentiful, that the coarser kind are given to their horses and
pigs.
The time of the foundation of this temple of the universe,6 to
which the inhabitants of the most remote parts of the earth resorted,7
is enveloped in uncertainty !8 It was plundered by the Spartan
king, Cleomenes,9 and it was burnt by the Persians,10 in their flight
after the battle of Platsea; it was afterwards rebuilt by Iktinos fx
and in the time of Demetrius Phalereus formed into a prostyle by
Philon. It seems never to have risen from its ruins after it was de-
stroyed by Alaric.12 According to Suetonius,13 Claudius endeavoured
■lB. 1. c. 66. - Georg. 1. v. 8. 3 B. 3.
4 B. 8. c. 1. see also jElian, Var. Hist. b. 3. c. 39. s Travels in Spain.
c Aristides Rhetor. Eleus. 7 Cicero de Nat. Deor.
3 According to Eusebius, it was founded in the reign of Pandion the Second; Chronic, b. 2.
p. 66. Clemens Alexand. and Tatian pretend it owed its origin to Lynceus, which was
about one hundred and twenty-two years earlier. Alexand. Strom, b. 1. p. 381. Tatiau.
Orat. adGraec. c. 61. p. 172.
3 Herodot. b. 6, c. 75. This happened in the first year of the 68th Olympiad, about fivfc
hundred and eight years B. C. w Herodot. b. 9. c. 65.
11 Strabo, b. 9. and Vitruv. Prffif. b. 7. and Plutarch's Life of Pericles.
14 A. D. 396. lS B. 5. c. 25.
Herodotus1 mentions a Delphic Oracle, in which the Arcadians
are termed BaXocvyi^ayoi.
Acorns were the food in Epiros, according to Virgil f and accord-
ing to Strabo,3 the same was the case in Spain.
Pausanias4 asserts, that the acorn, which was eaten by the Arca-
dians, was produced by a particular kind of oak, called Qyyog.
According to Swinburne,5 the acorn of the ilex is still the food of
the common people in some parts of Spain. It is probable however
that the BaXuvoi of the Greeks, which the Latins called Glandes, are
sometimes meant for chesnuts; and according to Gronovius, chesnuts
are called " ZxpSiuvovg QuXavovg," by Diphilus.
In the north of Italy the poorer people subsist almost entirely on
chesnuts; and on the mountains of Signi, in the Roman state, they
are so plentiful, that the coarser kind are given to their horses and
pigs.
The time of the foundation of this temple of the universe,6 to
which the inhabitants of the most remote parts of the earth resorted,7
is enveloped in uncertainty !8 It was plundered by the Spartan
king, Cleomenes,9 and it was burnt by the Persians,10 in their flight
after the battle of Platsea; it was afterwards rebuilt by Iktinos fx
and in the time of Demetrius Phalereus formed into a prostyle by
Philon. It seems never to have risen from its ruins after it was de-
stroyed by Alaric.12 According to Suetonius,13 Claudius endeavoured
■lB. 1. c. 66. - Georg. 1. v. 8. 3 B. 3.
4 B. 8. c. 1. see also jElian, Var. Hist. b. 3. c. 39. s Travels in Spain.
c Aristides Rhetor. Eleus. 7 Cicero de Nat. Deor.
3 According to Eusebius, it was founded in the reign of Pandion the Second; Chronic, b. 2.
p. 66. Clemens Alexand. and Tatian pretend it owed its origin to Lynceus, which was
about one hundred and twenty-two years earlier. Alexand. Strom, b. 1. p. 381. Tatiau.
Orat. adGraec. c. 61. p. 172.
3 Herodot. b. 6, c. 75. This happened in the first year of the 68th Olympiad, about fivfc
hundred and eight years B. C. w Herodot. b. 9. c. 65.
11 Strabo, b. 9. and Vitruv. Prffif. b. 7. and Plutarch's Life of Pericles.
14 A. D. 396. lS B. 5. c. 25.