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Chap. III: Excursion to Beneventum - Furcæ Caudinæ - Mount Taburnus - Beneventum, its Triumphal Arch - Excursion - Nuceria - Cava - Salernum - Mount Alburnus - Pæstum, its History and Temples
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Ch. III.
THROUGH ITALY.
103
to discover some monument of a people of so
much sensibility, and of such persevering- pa-
triotism. Beyond the ruins, and separated from
them by a little stream now called Pastend,
rises the hill of the Acropolis, where some ves-
tige must surely remain, and might be disco-
vered by diligent researches.* *
των 'Ελληνικών ’/τι και νυν, b η συνιοντες dva(uiζχ,^ησ-κοι/τoci
των αο^αιων ίκίΐι/ων ονομάτων τι και νομίμων, dvo-
λοφυξαμενοι οι ττξος- αλληλκς, και σ.ττο^κξυτα,ντίσ·,
Άπίξχονται. Ουτω οε ίν, φτΆ, και Tiy.sij, επειδή και τά
θέατρα, Εκβεβαρβαρωται, και ες μεγα,λνν ΑϊαφΘοραν τγ^οε-
ληλνθεν η πάνδημος αυτή. ματικη, καθ’ αυτκ; γενόμενοι
ολίγον α’ι/α^ραι/ητκ^ΐΛΕθα, οια ην 75 ^.κτικη. Ταυτα μεν
ο Apis-o^Evo^.-~-Alha:n<^iis αρ, Mazzochi.
* The reader will observe, that I have confined myself to
the general measures and appearances of the temples, in
conformity to the plan of this tour; for details he may be
referred to the work of Mr. Wilkins, the minute accuracy
of whose measurements and delineations he may depend
upon. This gentleman, in conjunction with other travellers,
supposes the pillars of Piestum to be covered with a sort
of plaster or stucco, which by its long duration seems to
have acquired the hardness, consistency, and certainly has
the appearance, of the stone which I mentioned.
As the plains that extend for some way on each side of
the Silarus are very thinly inhabited, and at the same time
THROUGH ITALY.
103
to discover some monument of a people of so
much sensibility, and of such persevering- pa-
triotism. Beyond the ruins, and separated from
them by a little stream now called Pastend,
rises the hill of the Acropolis, where some ves-
tige must surely remain, and might be disco-
vered by diligent researches.* *
των 'Ελληνικών ’/τι και νυν, b η συνιοντες dva(uiζχ,^ησ-κοι/τoci
των αο^αιων ίκίΐι/ων ονομάτων τι και νομίμων, dvo-
λοφυξαμενοι οι ττξος- αλληλκς, και σ.ττο^κξυτα,ντίσ·,
Άπίξχονται. Ουτω οε ίν, φτΆ, και Tiy.sij, επειδή και τά
θέατρα, Εκβεβαρβαρωται, και ες μεγα,λνν ΑϊαφΘοραν τγ^οε-
ληλνθεν η πάνδημος αυτή. ματικη, καθ’ αυτκ; γενόμενοι
ολίγον α’ι/α^ραι/ητκ^ΐΛΕθα, οια ην 75 ^.κτικη. Ταυτα μεν
ο Apis-o^Evo^.-~-Alha:n<^iis αρ, Mazzochi.
* The reader will observe, that I have confined myself to
the general measures and appearances of the temples, in
conformity to the plan of this tour; for details he may be
referred to the work of Mr. Wilkins, the minute accuracy
of whose measurements and delineations he may depend
upon. This gentleman, in conjunction with other travellers,
supposes the pillars of Piestum to be covered with a sort
of plaster or stucco, which by its long duration seems to
have acquired the hardness, consistency, and certainly has
the appearance, of the stone which I mentioned.
As the plains that extend for some way on each side of
the Silarus are very thinly inhabited, and at the same time