DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4099#0186
MONASTERY OF DAPHNE. 169
Agia Sabas, with some blocks of marble near it. We then crossed
a branch of the Cephissos, by a small bridge, which is composed of
two large blocks of marble; and hence called ho pctgpogu. This is
probably the spot where the Eleusinian procession rested for a short
time; and where the Athenian ladies used to joke with one another
from their carriages, which gave rise to the word yitpvgifyiv, to joke
at the bridge.'
Near this bridge is a marble lion, less than life, and of inferior
sculpture. A few minutes more brought us to the church of St.
Nicholas, with blocks and traces about it.
We were twenty-three minutes in traversing the olive-grove. No
uniform rule is at present observed with respect to the interval
between the trees. Sometimes I found it twenty-six feet, and at
other times thirty-seven.
A short way out of the grove, a tumulus is seen on the right side
of the way : it has been opened, and several blocks of stone are lying
near it. Not far from this we passed by other traces; of which
the majority are probably the remains of sepulchres.
In thirty-two minutes from the olive-grove we reached the foot of
a pointed hill, near the mystic entrance. On the summit of the hill
is the small church of Saint Elias, but without any traces of an-
tiquity.
We passed by the monastery of Daphne, which stands on the
ruins of a temple, probably that of Apollo." When I was first in
Greece, some small Ionic columns, with their capitals, were still re-
maining. A convenient earthquake is said to have demolished the
modern wall in which they were partly immured. The Earl of
Elgin, with a praise-worthy solicitude to prevent any future dila-
pidations, and animated by his well-known ardor for the acqui-
sition of Grecian antiquities, had them sent to England, and they
are at present in the British Museum.
In two hours and ten minutes from Athens we arrived at a votive
' See Dr. Bentlev's Dissertat. on Phalaris, p. 289. 2 Pausan. b. I.e. 37.
VOL. II. Z
Agia Sabas, with some blocks of marble near it. We then crossed
a branch of the Cephissos, by a small bridge, which is composed of
two large blocks of marble; and hence called ho pctgpogu. This is
probably the spot where the Eleusinian procession rested for a short
time; and where the Athenian ladies used to joke with one another
from their carriages, which gave rise to the word yitpvgifyiv, to joke
at the bridge.'
Near this bridge is a marble lion, less than life, and of inferior
sculpture. A few minutes more brought us to the church of St.
Nicholas, with blocks and traces about it.
We were twenty-three minutes in traversing the olive-grove. No
uniform rule is at present observed with respect to the interval
between the trees. Sometimes I found it twenty-six feet, and at
other times thirty-seven.
A short way out of the grove, a tumulus is seen on the right side
of the way : it has been opened, and several blocks of stone are lying
near it. Not far from this we passed by other traces; of which
the majority are probably the remains of sepulchres.
In thirty-two minutes from the olive-grove we reached the foot of
a pointed hill, near the mystic entrance. On the summit of the hill
is the small church of Saint Elias, but without any traces of an-
tiquity.
We passed by the monastery of Daphne, which stands on the
ruins of a temple, probably that of Apollo." When I was first in
Greece, some small Ionic columns, with their capitals, were still re-
maining. A convenient earthquake is said to have demolished the
modern wall in which they were partly immured. The Earl of
Elgin, with a praise-worthy solicitude to prevent any future dila-
pidations, and animated by his well-known ardor for the acqui-
sition of Grecian antiquities, had them sent to England, and they
are at present in the British Museum.
In two hours and ten minutes from Athens we arrived at a votive
' See Dr. Bentlev's Dissertat. on Phalaris, p. 289. 2 Pausan. b. I.e. 37.
VOL. II. Z