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

CHAP. V.J SMALLER TEMPLE OP NEMESIS. 39

for a trophy of their anticipated victory, and dedicated
to the Bhamnusian Nemesis. This statue was, perhaps,
one of the ornaments of the second more magnificent
temple, which the Athenians erected in honour of the
goddess, who had exercised in their favour her func-
tions of chastising the insolence of presumptuous men,
who in this case outraged the sanctity of her worship.

3 Such is the supposition by which the awkward
collocation of these two temples has been explained.
It seems to be partially true, but not in its full extent.
The earlier temple was probably destroyed, but not
at the time here assigned. This may be shown from
the two interesting monuments which still stand in
the vestibule of the earlier and smaller temple. They
are two chairs (9pdvot) of white marble, one on each
side of the entrance to it. Now, we see inscribed on
the plinth of the chair which is on the *right of the
door of the temple,

single authority of Pausanias (i. 33. 2.) It has therefore been suspected.
Did the error arise from the circumstance, that Paros was not the native
country indeed of the statue, but was so of the supposed sculptor, Agora-
critus ? Tzetz. Chil. vu. 930. *ei«as

ayaXjuaTwo-as /axWio-Ta QeiSiaKy tjj TeX"V
to ev PafivoveTi ayaXfia Ne/ie<reais Aios Te
eKeii/o dvaTtOticriti eirLypa{pi}v xa/,«^as
'Ay opatcp itov ayaXjta tovto k<mv Tlapiov.
3 Kruse Hellas. Attica, cap. vi. p. 278. Compare Unedited Antiqui-
ties of Attica, published by the Society of Dilettanti, p. 42.

* That on the left is inscribed thus,

GEM IAI

ZniTPATOZ
ANEGHKEN.