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XXII.] MONASTIC POSSESSIONS, AND HOSPITALITY. 29
formerly twenty pateras, fifteen kaldgheri, four or five
deacons20, and between fifty and sixty men-servants21.
Its eight metdkhis were then cultivated by its men-
servants, under the superintendance of a pateras residing
on each farm. At present the monastery is unable to
till its own lands, and therefore lets them to a cul-
tivator, receiving only one half of the produce, and
supplying the farmer with oxen: thus the half of
the produce received by the monks is generally a very
small one.
Before quitting our kind and hospitable hosts we
partake of a very palatable breakfast, chiefly consisting
of a kind of pilav, made of artichokes and rice, at the
same time doing justice, notwithstanding the early hour,
to the excellent wine which they again produce. I find
one of the priests a perfect oracle on the subject of the
population of every village of the eparkhia of Kisamos.
On making inquiries for the remains of Dictynnaeon, I
was told that " about three miles from the extremity of
Cape Spadha, on its eastern side, are remains of an
ancient Greek city at a place called Kantsillieres, which
Js not surrounded by walls, but had many houses in
former times.'" I did not think it worth while to spend
a whole day in going to see the slight remains which
exist of this city, since its position is clearly ascertained.
There is no doubt that this Dictynnaeon is the Dictynna
of Pomponius Mela22 and the Dictamnon of Ptolemy23.
The following is Pococke's account21 of the remains
found there. " The ancient remains of this place are
chiefly on a small height over the west end of the bay,
and on each side of two rivulets, which meet just before
they fall into the sea; most of them are roughly built
20 AmKovoi, commonly corrupted into oid/coi.
21 Men-servants, SovXevTaSes, the plural from 6ov\cvt,1<,:
22 Pomponius Mela, ii. 7-12. and Tzschucke's Notae Criticae, in
Tom. n. Part. n. p. 551.
23 Ptolemy, Geograph. p. 91.
24 Pococke's Description of the East and some other countries, Vol. u.
Part i. pp. 244-245.
formerly twenty pateras, fifteen kaldgheri, four or five
deacons20, and between fifty and sixty men-servants21.
Its eight metdkhis were then cultivated by its men-
servants, under the superintendance of a pateras residing
on each farm. At present the monastery is unable to
till its own lands, and therefore lets them to a cul-
tivator, receiving only one half of the produce, and
supplying the farmer with oxen: thus the half of
the produce received by the monks is generally a very
small one.
Before quitting our kind and hospitable hosts we
partake of a very palatable breakfast, chiefly consisting
of a kind of pilav, made of artichokes and rice, at the
same time doing justice, notwithstanding the early hour,
to the excellent wine which they again produce. I find
one of the priests a perfect oracle on the subject of the
population of every village of the eparkhia of Kisamos.
On making inquiries for the remains of Dictynnaeon, I
was told that " about three miles from the extremity of
Cape Spadha, on its eastern side, are remains of an
ancient Greek city at a place called Kantsillieres, which
Js not surrounded by walls, but had many houses in
former times.'" I did not think it worth while to spend
a whole day in going to see the slight remains which
exist of this city, since its position is clearly ascertained.
There is no doubt that this Dictynnaeon is the Dictynna
of Pomponius Mela22 and the Dictamnon of Ptolemy23.
The following is Pococke's account21 of the remains
found there. " The ancient remains of this place are
chiefly on a small height over the west end of the bay,
and on each side of two rivulets, which meet just before
they fall into the sea; most of them are roughly built
20 AmKovoi, commonly corrupted into oid/coi.
21 Men-servants, SovXevTaSes, the plural from 6ov\cvt,1<,:
22 Pomponius Mela, ii. 7-12. and Tzschucke's Notae Criticae, in
Tom. n. Part. n. p. 551.
23 Ptolemy, Geograph. p. 91.
24 Pococke's Description of the East and some other countries, Vol. u.
Part i. pp. 244-245.