Williams, Hugh W.: Select views in Greece (Band 1) (London, 1829)

LEFSINA, THE ANCIENT ELEUSIS,

WITH THE SEA AND PART OF THE ISLAND OF SALAMIS.

" P« ds Kqtpiiroi; Kgo; 'EMvriti fiictiiregov 7ra^i^i/iitit>( Toy vgoTl^ov ^iv[i»' <w
a^ctdrt^ot rat 'EAAtixaji tiMtiiv tm 'EX'.vtrtvi'cct TrdiTUf, omtrct if Ivaioiittt YlKii, -roa-ovru
iiyoy hrifMri^ccv, 'ova xcti Siovs vxkxearhi ii^um. '

Pausan. I. 10.

" Eleusis is a town situated on the Cephisus, about the place where
that river begins to flow in a stream of greater power than before.
The mysteries celebrated at this town were considered by the more
ancient Greeks as much more venerable than all other acts of religious
worship, as the gods are thought superior to the heroes."

----------Vetabo, qui Cereris sacrum

Vulgarit arcanas, sub isdem

Sit trabibus, fragilemve mecum
Solvat phaselum.1'

Hon. Ob. III. 2.

" Let not the wretch, who dare unveil

The secrets of Eleusis1 shrine,

Unfurl with me the doubtful sail,

Nor one roof shield his head and mine."

J. P.

A king sat on the lofty brow

That looks o^er sea-born Salamis ;
And ships by thousands lay below,

And men in nations—all were his ;
He counted them at break of day,
And when the sun set, where were they ?"

Byron.