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ANCIENT ATHENS.
doubt by means of the subterranean communication which modern
researches have proved to exist. The garrison were now put to the
sword; the temple was despoiled, and the whole Acropolis burnt. A
day or two afterwards, Xerxes permitted the Athenian exiles to go up
and sacrifice on the Acropolis; when they found that the sacred olive,
although it had been burnt along with the temple, had thrown out
a shoot a cubit long.1 Ten months afterwards, the Persian general
Mardonius again entered Athens unopposed, the citizens having fled
to Salamis. On this occasion he completed the destruction of the city,
overthrowing all the temples, walls, and houses, except a few in which
the Persian leaders had lived.2
secret communication between the Ere-
chtheium and the temple of Aglauros had
been ingeniously conjectured by Dr. Words-
worth before it was actually discovered.—
Athens and Attica, ch. xii.
1 Herod, ib. c. 55.
2 Idem, ix. c. 3, 13; Thucyd. i. 8!).
doubt by means of the subterranean communication which modern
researches have proved to exist. The garrison were now put to the
sword; the temple was despoiled, and the whole Acropolis burnt. A
day or two afterwards, Xerxes permitted the Athenian exiles to go up
and sacrifice on the Acropolis; when they found that the sacred olive,
although it had been burnt along with the temple, had thrown out
a shoot a cubit long.1 Ten months afterwards, the Persian general
Mardonius again entered Athens unopposed, the citizens having fled
to Salamis. On this occasion he completed the destruction of the city,
overthrowing all the temples, walls, and houses, except a few in which
the Persian leaders had lived.2
secret communication between the Ere-
chtheium and the temple of Aglauros had
been ingeniously conjectured by Dr. Words-
worth before it was actually discovered.—
Athens and Attica, ch. xii.
1 Herod, ib. c. 55.
2 Idem, ix. c. 3, 13; Thucyd. i. 8!).