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picture which already adorned her own tejnple in
her own city,
The twelve Deities seated, with Jupiter in the
midst, exactly correspond with the remains which
have been preserved. Neptune produces the horse,
and Minerva the olive tree :* and the Arx Cecropia
seems to fix, beyond a doubt, the spot to which the
poet attaches the scenes which he describes.
An objection might possibly be started, that
" Scopulum Mavortis" would allude to the Areo-
pagus ; but it does not readily appear that the
Areopagus was ever so called :- whereas, on a
reference to Pausanias, one is struck with the
peculiar propriety of applying, in the present in-
stance, this denomination to the ground on which
the Temple of Minerva stands.
Pausanias begins the fifth chapter of his. Attics
with a description of the Tholus or Prytaneum,
which was to the east and north of the Acropolis.
Jïe then mentions; the statues of several heroes who
gave their names, to the Athenian tribes. He enters
into details of the history of Athens under- Pandion,
* Traces of the accessory ornaments, alluded tft fes the poet,
are to be found in. several of the mutilated statues on the pedi-
ments: tint, as they were of bronze, or some more precions
material, they have long since disappeared, as well as those of
which some remains are still to be discovered on the metopes, and
on the frize of the cell.
picture which already adorned her own tejnple in
her own city,
The twelve Deities seated, with Jupiter in the
midst, exactly correspond with the remains which
have been preserved. Neptune produces the horse,
and Minerva the olive tree :* and the Arx Cecropia
seems to fix, beyond a doubt, the spot to which the
poet attaches the scenes which he describes.
An objection might possibly be started, that
" Scopulum Mavortis" would allude to the Areo-
pagus ; but it does not readily appear that the
Areopagus was ever so called :- whereas, on a
reference to Pausanias, one is struck with the
peculiar propriety of applying, in the present in-
stance, this denomination to the ground on which
the Temple of Minerva stands.
Pausanias begins the fifth chapter of his. Attics
with a description of the Tholus or Prytaneum,
which was to the east and north of the Acropolis.
Jïe then mentions; the statues of several heroes who
gave their names, to the Athenian tribes. He enters
into details of the history of Athens under- Pandion,
* Traces of the accessory ornaments, alluded tft fes the poet,
are to be found in. several of the mutilated statues on the pedi-
ments: tint, as they were of bronze, or some more precions
material, they have long since disappeared, as well as those of
which some remains are still to be discovered on the metopes, and
on the frize of the cell.