Wordsworth, Christopher: Athens and Attica: journal of a residence (London, 1837)

CHAPTER IV.

APHIDNAE.

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Theoc. II. 1.

Where are my Bay-trees vanish'd?

The Abbe Barthelemy, whose Voyage du Jeune
Anacharsis1 we find an agreeable companion in Attica,
promises us on the road from Oropus to Athens, on
a part of which we now are, some pleasant objects,
which we cannot discover on the spot where they are
said by him to exist. His party of travellers, in their
journey from Athens to Oropus at the beginning of
spring, found, as he tells us, the road sheltered by
the green foliage of bay-tree groves. Before their
arrival at Oropus they visit the temple of Amphia-
raus, which was agreeably situated in the neighbour-
hood of limpid streams.

Now the promise of this scenery on the way-
side rests solely on the supposed assurance of Aris-
totle's scholar Dicsearchus, some leaves of whose

1 in. p. 235. Chap, xxxiv. Nous partimes d'Athenes dans les
premiers jours du mois Munychion. Nous arrivames ]e soir meme a
Orope, par un ehemin assez rude, mais ombrage' en quelques endroits
de bois de tanners.