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OF THE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS OF THE CITY. 87
In one of the hemicycles of this gymnasium there
are, or were in Arundell's time, some few vestiges
of the fresco decorations so common in these build-
ings, but which that antiquary1 fancied he could
elucidate as having reference to a Christian building.
It is true he afterwards suggests that the painting
might represent the myth of the origin of the
city, but he evidently inclines towards the former
opinion. He says be thought he could discover a
man on horseback; and a javelin and a spear were
very visible, as well as some fish. " There was a
church of St. Luke at Bphesus; (he continues :)
may this have any reference to the legend of the
fishes ? Or if it be of earlier date, may it not com-
memorate the fishes leaping from the coals, (like
the fish of St. JSTeot from the frying-pan,) and the
javelin with which the wild hog was killed ?"
Fellows,2 describing the ruins of Ephesus, speaks
of this as " one of those gigantic and nameless
piles of building by'some called gymnasia, by others
temples, and again, with (he thinks) more reason,
'palaces." Chandler3 mentions two trunks of sta-
tues of great size, without heads, and almost buried,
but with remarkable drapery, lying among the
fragments in front of this gymnasium. In another
work4 he speaks only of one, which he says was
of marble, and vested in the Eastern or Parthian
1 Discov. ii. 255-6. 2 Jownal, i. 275.
3 Travels, i. 150. 4 Ionian Anliq ii. 30.
In one of the hemicycles of this gymnasium there
are, or were in Arundell's time, some few vestiges
of the fresco decorations so common in these build-
ings, but which that antiquary1 fancied he could
elucidate as having reference to a Christian building.
It is true he afterwards suggests that the painting
might represent the myth of the origin of the
city, but he evidently inclines towards the former
opinion. He says be thought he could discover a
man on horseback; and a javelin and a spear were
very visible, as well as some fish. " There was a
church of St. Luke at Bphesus; (he continues :)
may this have any reference to the legend of the
fishes ? Or if it be of earlier date, may it not com-
memorate the fishes leaping from the coals, (like
the fish of St. JSTeot from the frying-pan,) and the
javelin with which the wild hog was killed ?"
Fellows,2 describing the ruins of Ephesus, speaks
of this as " one of those gigantic and nameless
piles of building by'some called gymnasia, by others
temples, and again, with (he thinks) more reason,
'palaces." Chandler3 mentions two trunks of sta-
tues of great size, without heads, and almost buried,
but with remarkable drapery, lying among the
fragments in front of this gymnasium. In another
work4 he speaks only of one, which he says was
of marble, and vested in the Eastern or Parthian
1 Discov. ii. 255-6. 2 Jownal, i. 275.
3 Travels, i. 150. 4 Ionian Anliq ii. 30.