Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin's pursuits in Greece (London, 1811)

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and during the reigns of Ptolemy, Antigonus, and
Attalus. Returning to the statues, he enumerates,
among others, that of Demosthenes, and close to it a
Temple dedicated to Mars. He then describes several
other statues ; and at length arrives at the Theatre
of Bacchus and Odeon. This statement would seem
to fix the Temple of Mars in some spot under the
craggy cliffs which terminate the Acropolis to the
east, (i. e. in the line of the street of the Tripods ;)
and.gives a rational ground for supposing, that those
cliffs were the Scopulum Mavortis of the poet.—
Now the eastern façade of the Parthenon appears
to rise immediately above these craggy cliffs, and
certainly presents to the spectator below one of the
grandest scenes which can be imagined, even in
Greece.