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conspiracy against the Pisistratidfe. The
fountain in the court-yard of the English
consul Logotheti's house was decorated
with a bas-relief of Bacchantes, in the
style called Graeco-Etruscan : Lord Elgin
obtained this, as well as a quadriga ih
bas-relief, with a Victory hovering over
the charioteer, probably an ex voto, for
some victory at the Olympic games.
Amongst the Funeral Cippi found in dif-
ferent places, are some remarkable names,
particularly that of Socrates; and in the
•Ceramicus itself, Lord Elgin discovered
an inscription in elegiac verse, on the
Athenians who fell at Potidsea, and
whose eulogy was delivered with pathe-
tic; eloquence in the funeral oration of
Pericles. ìy?-:à ,
The peasants at Athens generally put
into a niche over the door of their cot-
tages, any fragment they discover,. jh
^ploughing the fields. Out of these, were
«elected and purchased many curious an-
fountain in the court-yard of the English
consul Logotheti's house was decorated
with a bas-relief of Bacchantes, in the
style called Graeco-Etruscan : Lord Elgin
obtained this, as well as a quadriga ih
bas-relief, with a Victory hovering over
the charioteer, probably an ex voto, for
some victory at the Olympic games.
Amongst the Funeral Cippi found in dif-
ferent places, are some remarkable names,
particularly that of Socrates; and in the
•Ceramicus itself, Lord Elgin discovered
an inscription in elegiac verse, on the
Athenians who fell at Potidsea, and
whose eulogy was delivered with pathe-
tic; eloquence in the funeral oration of
Pericles. ìy?-:à ,
The peasants at Athens generally put
into a niche over the door of their cot-
tages, any fragment they discover,. jh
^ploughing the fields. Out of these, were
«elected and purchased many curious an-