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CHAP. XII
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THE CAVE OF AGBAULUS.
89
her country, may be conjectured to have been the
cause that the sanctuary of Agraulus was chosen as
the spot where the military oath was administered
to the young soldiers of Athens2, by which they
bound themselves, in presence of the deity of the
place, to defend their country until death3.
2 etpi'iflaiv opicos kv Tin t??s AypauXov Demosth. 438. 18.
3 While this sheet is passing through the press a letter from Athens
brings me the intelligence that "close to the Erectheum (IIa\\a<5os i/aos.
Eur. Ion. see note p. 87.) a subterranean way has been found leading
down to the cavern supposed of Agraulus, and leading out into the town
from the centre of the northern face of the Acropolis rock." Cp. Pittakys.
Athenes, p. 149.
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THE CAVE OF AGBAULUS.
89
her country, may be conjectured to have been the
cause that the sanctuary of Agraulus was chosen as
the spot where the military oath was administered
to the young soldiers of Athens2, by which they
bound themselves, in presence of the deity of the
place, to defend their country until death3.
2 etpi'iflaiv opicos kv Tin t??s AypauXov Demosth. 438. 18.
3 While this sheet is passing through the press a letter from Athens
brings me the intelligence that "close to the Erectheum (IIa\\a<5os i/aos.
Eur. Ion. see note p. 87.) a subterranean way has been found leading
down to the cavern supposed of Agraulus, and leading out into the town
from the centre of the northern face of the Acropolis rock." Cp. Pittakys.
Athenes, p. 149.