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COKINTH,
ANCIENTLY EPHYRE AND CORINTHUS, ON THE ISTHMUS
WHICH JOINS PELOPONNESUS TO GREECE PROPER.
"Urbs erat tunc prasclara ante excidium, arx quoque et isthmus
prsebuere spectaculum: arx inter omnia in immanem altitudinem edita,
scatens fontibus : Isthmus duo maria, ab occasu et ortu solis finitima,
arctis faucibus dirimens."------Lrv. XLV. 28.
" Corinth was then in the height of its splendour, but his attention
was particularly attracted by the Citadel, which towers to an enormous
height, and abounds with springs;' and by the Isthmus, a very narrow
neck of land, separating two seas, which approach as it were to meet
from the east and west."—J. P.
" Many a vanished year and age,
And tempest's breath, and battle's rage,
Have swept o'er Corinth; yet she stands
A fortress formed to Freedom's hands ;
The whirlwind's wrath, the earthquake's shock,
Have left untouched her hoary rock,
The keystone of a land; which still,
Though fallen, looks proudly on that hill,
The land-mark to the double tide
That purpling rolls on either side,
As if their waters chafed to meet,
Yet pause arid crouch beneath her feet."
Byeon's Siege of Coeinth.
" His si tunc anhnis acies collata fuisset,
Prodita non tantas vidisset Grascia clades :
Oppida senioto Pelopeia Marte vigerent:
Starent Arcadise, starent Lacedsemonis, arces :
Non mare fumasset geminum flagrante Corintho,
Nee fera Cecropias traxissent vincula matres.
Ilia dies potuit nostris imponere finem
Cladibus, et sceleris caussas auferre futuri."
Claudian. in Rup. II. 186.
ANCIENTLY EPHYRE AND CORINTHUS, ON THE ISTHMUS
WHICH JOINS PELOPONNESUS TO GREECE PROPER.
"Urbs erat tunc prasclara ante excidium, arx quoque et isthmus
prsebuere spectaculum: arx inter omnia in immanem altitudinem edita,
scatens fontibus : Isthmus duo maria, ab occasu et ortu solis finitima,
arctis faucibus dirimens."------Lrv. XLV. 28.
" Corinth was then in the height of its splendour, but his attention
was particularly attracted by the Citadel, which towers to an enormous
height, and abounds with springs;' and by the Isthmus, a very narrow
neck of land, separating two seas, which approach as it were to meet
from the east and west."—J. P.
" Many a vanished year and age,
And tempest's breath, and battle's rage,
Have swept o'er Corinth; yet she stands
A fortress formed to Freedom's hands ;
The whirlwind's wrath, the earthquake's shock,
Have left untouched her hoary rock,
The keystone of a land; which still,
Though fallen, looks proudly on that hill,
The land-mark to the double tide
That purpling rolls on either side,
As if their waters chafed to meet,
Yet pause arid crouch beneath her feet."
Byeon's Siege of Coeinth.
" His si tunc anhnis acies collata fuisset,
Prodita non tantas vidisset Grascia clades :
Oppida senioto Pelopeia Marte vigerent:
Starent Arcadise, starent Lacedsemonis, arces :
Non mare fumasset geminum flagrante Corintho,
Nee fera Cecropias traxissent vincula matres.
Ilia dies potuit nostris imponere finem
Cladibus, et sceleris caussas auferre futuri."
Claudian. in Rup. II. 186.