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112 Travels in Greece, Turkey, and the Holy Land,
dertakes the literary department, and pens, in german greek,
harsh dissertations, to demonstrate that, (thanks to the progress
of time, and the procession of the equinoxes) the arts can no
longer nourish out of Norway, or among certain southern
nations, such as the Prussians and Bavarians.
A marriage which engrossed all the conversation of the
higher circles of Athens, was said to be at that time on foot.
A young Englishman had, it seems, fallen desperately in love
with a Greek lady, Mina Macri, whose charms had, together
with those of her sister, been celebrated by the muse of Lord
Byron. Their father had enjoyed the post of English Consul.
I was not struck with the beauty of these young ladies; but,
as a gallant Frenchman, I felt a respect for the enthusiasm of
the Athenians.
I cannot quit Modern Athens without a slight mention of
the society I met with there. The most agreeable, beyond all
comparison, was that which assembled at the parties of the
lady of the Austrian Consul, M. Grappius. This young lady,
a Greek of Constantinople, possesses a fine figure, and speaks
several languages with the grace and delicacy natural to her
nation. Her husband, a well informed artist, employs the
greater part of his time in researches after antiquities.
The English Consul, Logotheti, a name which he inherits
from his father, who had this title bestowed on him on account
of a post he held in the Greek church, was but little seen, and
did not appear to me to be on an intimate footing with the
Consul of France. The Archbishop of Athens has for suffra-
gans, the bishops of Thebes, Livadia, andTalanda, the ancient
Opontes, in the gulf of Negropont, and to the north of Leba-
dia. This man, who is not deficient in address and in a sort
of politeness peculiar to the Greeks, is a native of Metelina.
He was formerly preceptor to a prince of Walachia. I found
him busily engaged in temporal concerns: he was on the eve
of concluding an advantageous match for his nephew with the
sister of the agent of France, at Zea. In this affair, which set
all the busy tongues of Athens in motion, the primate was
much more interested than in the remembrance of the preach-
ing of St. Paul in the Areopagus, or in that of the mystical re-
veries of Patmos. I ought not to forget Doctor Avramiotti,
and the potent wrath kindled in his bosom by M. de Chateau-
briand : feeling himself offended at certain passages in the
Itinerary, he made a virulent attack on the author in a small
Greek pamphlet, which was translated into Italian at Padua,
but which did not on that account acquire a greater cele-
brity.
I quitted Athens reluctantly, with the hope of returning
dertakes the literary department, and pens, in german greek,
harsh dissertations, to demonstrate that, (thanks to the progress
of time, and the procession of the equinoxes) the arts can no
longer nourish out of Norway, or among certain southern
nations, such as the Prussians and Bavarians.
A marriage which engrossed all the conversation of the
higher circles of Athens, was said to be at that time on foot.
A young Englishman had, it seems, fallen desperately in love
with a Greek lady, Mina Macri, whose charms had, together
with those of her sister, been celebrated by the muse of Lord
Byron. Their father had enjoyed the post of English Consul.
I was not struck with the beauty of these young ladies; but,
as a gallant Frenchman, I felt a respect for the enthusiasm of
the Athenians.
I cannot quit Modern Athens without a slight mention of
the society I met with there. The most agreeable, beyond all
comparison, was that which assembled at the parties of the
lady of the Austrian Consul, M. Grappius. This young lady,
a Greek of Constantinople, possesses a fine figure, and speaks
several languages with the grace and delicacy natural to her
nation. Her husband, a well informed artist, employs the
greater part of his time in researches after antiquities.
The English Consul, Logotheti, a name which he inherits
from his father, who had this title bestowed on him on account
of a post he held in the Greek church, was but little seen, and
did not appear to me to be on an intimate footing with the
Consul of France. The Archbishop of Athens has for suffra-
gans, the bishops of Thebes, Livadia, andTalanda, the ancient
Opontes, in the gulf of Negropont, and to the north of Leba-
dia. This man, who is not deficient in address and in a sort
of politeness peculiar to the Greeks, is a native of Metelina.
He was formerly preceptor to a prince of Walachia. I found
him busily engaged in temporal concerns: he was on the eve
of concluding an advantageous match for his nephew with the
sister of the agent of France, at Zea. In this affair, which set
all the busy tongues of Athens in motion, the primate was
much more interested than in the remembrance of the preach-
ing of St. Paul in the Areopagus, or in that of the mystical re-
veries of Patmos. I ought not to forget Doctor Avramiotti,
and the potent wrath kindled in his bosom by M. de Chateau-
briand : feeling himself offended at certain passages in the
Itinerary, he made a virulent attack on the author in a small
Greek pamphlet, which was translated into Italian at Padua,
but which did not on that account acquire a greater cele-
brity.
I quitted Athens reluctantly, with the hope of returning