Stanhope, John Spencer: Olympia or topography illustrative of the actual state of the plain of Olympia and of the ruins of the city of Elis (London, 1824)

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RUIN D.

Tins building is that which M. Fauvel supposed to be the stable for
the cars, but which M. de Choisetil has declared to be the remains of the
Aphesis, or barrier. If the respect doe to so distinguished a traveller
made me cautious in advancing' a decided opinion on the former part of
his theory, the veneration I feel for the ancients will not allow me to
acknowledge, in an insignificant brick building, the Aphesis of Olympia; for
were I even disposed to admit that the ancient Greeks adopted generally this
mode of construction, I should still refuse to recognise in these mean and
unimportant remains, the vestiges of an edifice, consecrated, by united