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72 CEREMONIES OF DAYS OF ASSEMBLY. [cHAP. X.
of the Pnyx. The lustrations are performed. The
herald comes forward to invite the orators to speak;
and questions circulate among the audience, what
orator will put on the crown, and who now enjoys
the sway of the 'bema, of that simple block of stone,
the political 6/u.<pa\os of Greece; what will be the
object of his harangue, to recommend a war, or a
new tribute, and
2«X7rd TWV 7T6TpWV ai>W0€V TOVS TTOpOUS 9vVVO-
GKOireiv.
From the rocks to watch the taxes swimming in like tunny-
shoals.
All which speculations, being made under the open
sky, may be in a moment terminated by a single drop
of rain producing the announcement
3oioarifx'ia '<ttiv, Kal pavis /3e/3\j;ice yue"
A portent! for I felt a drop of rain:
and thus the assembly be dissolved more rapidly than
it met.
A question remains to be asked here. Should
we be justified in assigning the principal object in
the Pnyx, as it is now seen, to so early a period
as the time of the Peloponnesian war? As far as
Athenian Pnyx. Orest. 871.— opu> &' o%\ov trreixowra, Kai ddaffovr
a Kpav. Hence too the Pnyx was subsequently dedicated to Zeds
iii^io-ros. Corp. Inscript. p. 475.
1 Pac. 673. offTis Kprtrel vvv rov \l6ov.
' Equites. 313. » Archarn. 171.
of the Pnyx. The lustrations are performed. The
herald comes forward to invite the orators to speak;
and questions circulate among the audience, what
orator will put on the crown, and who now enjoys
the sway of the 'bema, of that simple block of stone,
the political 6/u.<pa\os of Greece; what will be the
object of his harangue, to recommend a war, or a
new tribute, and
2«X7rd TWV 7T6TpWV ai>W0€V TOVS TTOpOUS 9vVVO-
GKOireiv.
From the rocks to watch the taxes swimming in like tunny-
shoals.
All which speculations, being made under the open
sky, may be in a moment terminated by a single drop
of rain producing the announcement
3oioarifx'ia '<ttiv, Kal pavis /3e/3\j;ice yue"
A portent! for I felt a drop of rain:
and thus the assembly be dissolved more rapidly than
it met.
A question remains to be asked here. Should
we be justified in assigning the principal object in
the Pnyx, as it is now seen, to so early a period
as the time of the Peloponnesian war? As far as
Athenian Pnyx. Orest. 871.— opu> &' o%\ov trreixowra, Kai ddaffovr
a Kpav. Hence too the Pnyx was subsequently dedicated to Zeds
iii^io-ros. Corp. Inscript. p. 475.
1 Pac. 673. offTis Kprtrel vvv rov \l6ov.
' Equites. 313. » Archarn. 171.