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THE SARAPEIUM. 269
Athens had been converted into Egypt.1 To admit such gods a decree
of the people was necessary. Strange that so lax a theology should
have been combined with a high degree of intolerance, and that such a
people should have entertained a deadly enmity against freethinkers,
astronomers, and philosophers, like Anaxagoras or Socrates.3
In the time of Stuart three Ionic columns supporting an architrave
were to be seen at an oil mill about midway between the monument of
Lysicrates and the arch of Hadrian, consequently on the line of road
which Pausanias is now pursuing; and Leake is of opinion3 that they
may possibly have belonged to the Sarapeium. But it seems to us that
they would have been too far to the east to have belonged to that
temple, which must have been nearer the foot of the Acropolis; and
that if they formed part of any temple mentioned by Pausanias, it
would rather have been that of Ileithyia. Though the images within
were ancient, the building itself might have been more modern, and a
rifaceimento.
Not far from the Sarapeium was a place (xcoplov) where Theseus
and Peirithoiis were said to have agreed on their expeditions, first to
Lacedsemon, and afterwards to Thesprotia. We read in the ' (Edipus
at Colonus' of Sophocles:
tOTT) KeXfidav iv Tro\v(TX'a"ra"' A"9>
koi'Xou neXas KparTJpos, ov ra 0>;<re'(»s
IlepiSov tc kcitm tvL(tt del ovv6i)paTa.—V. 1591.
" He stood in one of many branching roads
Near to a hollow basin, which recalls
The plighted faith of Theseus and his friend."
Meursius4 refers these lines to the place here mentioned by Pausanias;
while Leake observes5 that Sophocles seems to fix the meeting near
the Colonus Hippios. The death of (Edipus took place at Colonus, and
1 Atyvwrov atru>v tt\v nokiv ireiroit)Kas 2 See the decree of Diopeithes against
avr 'Adi]vS>v. — Frag, of the Hora;, ap. Anaxagoras, Pint. Pericl. 32.
Athen. ix. 14. In the ' Birds' also the bar- s vol. i. p. 272.
barons gods admitted by democracy are 4 Ath. Att. i. 9.
alluded to, v. 1520. 6 vol. i. p. 129, note 2.
Athens had been converted into Egypt.1 To admit such gods a decree
of the people was necessary. Strange that so lax a theology should
have been combined with a high degree of intolerance, and that such a
people should have entertained a deadly enmity against freethinkers,
astronomers, and philosophers, like Anaxagoras or Socrates.3
In the time of Stuart three Ionic columns supporting an architrave
were to be seen at an oil mill about midway between the monument of
Lysicrates and the arch of Hadrian, consequently on the line of road
which Pausanias is now pursuing; and Leake is of opinion3 that they
may possibly have belonged to the Sarapeium. But it seems to us that
they would have been too far to the east to have belonged to that
temple, which must have been nearer the foot of the Acropolis; and
that if they formed part of any temple mentioned by Pausanias, it
would rather have been that of Ileithyia. Though the images within
were ancient, the building itself might have been more modern, and a
rifaceimento.
Not far from the Sarapeium was a place (xcoplov) where Theseus
and Peirithoiis were said to have agreed on their expeditions, first to
Lacedsemon, and afterwards to Thesprotia. We read in the ' (Edipus
at Colonus' of Sophocles:
tOTT) KeXfidav iv Tro\v(TX'a"ra"' A"9>
koi'Xou neXas KparTJpos, ov ra 0>;<re'(»s
IlepiSov tc kcitm tvL(tt del ovv6i)paTa.—V. 1591.
" He stood in one of many branching roads
Near to a hollow basin, which recalls
The plighted faith of Theseus and his friend."
Meursius4 refers these lines to the place here mentioned by Pausanias;
while Leake observes5 that Sophocles seems to fix the meeting near
the Colonus Hippios. The death of (Edipus took place at Colonus, and
1 Atyvwrov atru>v tt\v nokiv ireiroit)Kas 2 See the decree of Diopeithes against
avr 'Adi]vS>v. — Frag, of the Hora;, ap. Anaxagoras, Pint. Pericl. 32.
Athen. ix. 14. In the ' Birds' also the bar- s vol. i. p. 272.
barons gods admitted by democracy are 4 Ath. Att. i. 9.
alluded to, v. 1520. 6 vol. i. p. 129, note 2.