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NECROPOLIS ON THE EAST. 473
Within this temenos, the inscription proceeds to
tell the traveller, was a temple and altar where
poets might sacrifice to the Muses, a stad'mm and
palccstra, haths, and a statue of Pan. playing on the
syrinx. The whole precinct must therefore be re-
garded as a Gymnasium, which was probably be-
queathed for that purpose by the hero Antigonos,
just as the gardens called Academia at Athens
were said to have been given originally by the hero
Academos.d
From a comparison of the opening of the inscrip-
tion with the last two lines, it may be inferred that
the statue of Hermes, as temenouros, or guardian of
the temenos, stood at the entrance, and that the
god himself is supposed to invite the traveller.
From the address to the stranger, ^hog (line 3 of
this inscription), it is clear that the temenos stood
near the public road, and at a short distance from
the city, as may be inferred from the expression
Hatov oooi7rof>lrjg sri 7^si7rsrai (line 1).
The natural features of the locality where I found
the inscription correspond to a certain extent with
those indicated in the text, for, between this spot and
the city are several ayarj or ravines, alternating with
aliv-t) or heights, and there is more than one natural
fountain which would have afforded water for the
baths. I was unable, however, to discover in this
part of the environs of the city any level ground
suitable for a Gymnasium.
d See Peterson, Das Gymnasium d. Griechen, in Vorlesnngen im
Hamburg. Akad. Gymnasium, 1858, p. 15. Compare the will of
Theoplirastus, Diogen. Laert. v. 2, § 53.
II. 2 i
Within this temenos, the inscription proceeds to
tell the traveller, was a temple and altar where
poets might sacrifice to the Muses, a stad'mm and
palccstra, haths, and a statue of Pan. playing on the
syrinx. The whole precinct must therefore be re-
garded as a Gymnasium, which was probably be-
queathed for that purpose by the hero Antigonos,
just as the gardens called Academia at Athens
were said to have been given originally by the hero
Academos.d
From a comparison of the opening of the inscrip-
tion with the last two lines, it may be inferred that
the statue of Hermes, as temenouros, or guardian of
the temenos, stood at the entrance, and that the
god himself is supposed to invite the traveller.
From the address to the stranger, ^hog (line 3 of
this inscription), it is clear that the temenos stood
near the public road, and at a short distance from
the city, as may be inferred from the expression
Hatov oooi7rof>lrjg sri 7^si7rsrai (line 1).
The natural features of the locality where I found
the inscription correspond to a certain extent with
those indicated in the text, for, between this spot and
the city are several ayarj or ravines, alternating with
aliv-t) or heights, and there is more than one natural
fountain which would have afforded water for the
baths. I was unable, however, to discover in this
part of the environs of the city any level ground
suitable for a Gymnasium.
d See Peterson, Das Gymnasium d. Griechen, in Vorlesnngen im
Hamburg. Akad. Gymnasium, 1858, p. 15. Compare the will of
Theoplirastus, Diogen. Laert. v. 2, § 53.
II. 2 i