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26 NEMEA.
road from Corinth to Argos, and turns to the right near a small der-
veni or guard house. There are not always guards at this place; when
there are, it is usual to give them a piastre or two, but they have no
right to demand it from a person with a passport. The road accom-
panies a brook running in the bottom of a very narrow ravine, which,
if Tretum was not a town, might have given origin to the name; it is
also at the distance of 15 stadia from Nemea, which agrees with Pau-
sanias, till at the distance of 50 minutes from Nemea, it becomes a
little more open ; and on an eminence on the right, covered with ar-
butus and other shrubs, is the ruin of an ancient edifice, now known
by the name of Ellenon Lithari. The building of the Greeks. The
vestiges of some fabric, with the remains of a portal with holes into
which bars have been inserted to secure the door, are to be discovered
among the bushes.
On the left of the road the stream falls into a basin of rock, the
sides of which appear to have been shaped by art. This was probably
an ancient fountain, now the haunt of numerous tortoises. The vil-
lage of Zachari is seen on a hill about a mile On the right. The
country is covered with shrubs.
The wood between Nemea and Mycenae was the chief haunt of the
Nemean lion. Diod. Sic.
At the distance of about eight minutes from the Ellenon Lithari, is
a heap, possibly a tumulus or heroic sepulchre, on a little hill to the
right. At 15 minutes from the Lithari is a derveni, upon a rock to
road from Corinth to Argos, and turns to the right near a small der-
veni or guard house. There are not always guards at this place; when
there are, it is usual to give them a piastre or two, but they have no
right to demand it from a person with a passport. The road accom-
panies a brook running in the bottom of a very narrow ravine, which,
if Tretum was not a town, might have given origin to the name; it is
also at the distance of 15 stadia from Nemea, which agrees with Pau-
sanias, till at the distance of 50 minutes from Nemea, it becomes a
little more open ; and on an eminence on the right, covered with ar-
butus and other shrubs, is the ruin of an ancient edifice, now known
by the name of Ellenon Lithari. The building of the Greeks. The
vestiges of some fabric, with the remains of a portal with holes into
which bars have been inserted to secure the door, are to be discovered
among the bushes.
On the left of the road the stream falls into a basin of rock, the
sides of which appear to have been shaped by art. This was probably
an ancient fountain, now the haunt of numerous tortoises. The vil-
lage of Zachari is seen on a hill about a mile On the right. The
country is covered with shrubs.
The wood between Nemea and Mycenae was the chief haunt of the
Nemean lion. Diod. Sic.
At the distance of about eight minutes from the Ellenon Lithari, is
a heap, possibly a tumulus or heroic sepulchre, on a little hill to the
right. At 15 minutes from the Lithari is a derveni, upon a rock to