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CHAPTER XIV.
ATHENS.
The Acropolis.
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KaTatpavrj iravTa v\ toe ev iroXei.
LnciAN. Piscator xv.
Let us ascend the Acropolis, that we may have a Panoramic
view of the city.
In its best days the Acropolis of Athens had four
distinct characters. It was at once the Fortress, the
1 Sacred Enclosure, the Treasury, and the 2 Museum of
1 Lysist. 484.
apciTov 'AkooVoXiv
lepov Tefievos.
2 There is a particular allusion to the Acropolis, and this its character as
a Museum in Dicsearchus (p. 9.) where he calls the city of Athens dav-
fjiarrrov IIAIN0INQN Zwiov StAaimaXeTov ; which expression has been cor-
rupted by the transcribers: for what are Jwa irXivdiva? The true reading
I conceive to be Bav/iaa-rov TI AI9INQN ZQIQN fooW/caXeiov, i. e.
"o certain admirable Studio of Sculpture.'" That works of sculpture
were called X,G>a XiSma, is evident from Philemon. (Athenaei 605. f.)
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dvBpayjros iipd(r6rj Tts.
At Samos too a man once fell in love
With the Statue in the Temple.
And Aristotle (in Diog. Laert. v. p. 277. quoted by Meineke,) Jnia
X id iv a dvadelvai Ait xal AflTji/a. Hence the frieze of a building is called
its zophorus, Xiflos irpos m Ta %ma, see Erectheum Inscription, and
ATHENS.
The Acropolis.
AiritofjLev €9 Ttjv 'AkoottoXiv avTtjfy (09 av €K iteptiairri'i afia
KaTatpavrj iravTa v\ toe ev iroXei.
LnciAN. Piscator xv.
Let us ascend the Acropolis, that we may have a Panoramic
view of the city.
In its best days the Acropolis of Athens had four
distinct characters. It was at once the Fortress, the
1 Sacred Enclosure, the Treasury, and the 2 Museum of
1 Lysist. 484.
apciTov 'AkooVoXiv
lepov Tefievos.
2 There is a particular allusion to the Acropolis, and this its character as
a Museum in Dicsearchus (p. 9.) where he calls the city of Athens dav-
fjiarrrov IIAIN0INQN Zwiov StAaimaXeTov ; which expression has been cor-
rupted by the transcribers: for what are Jwa irXivdiva? The true reading
I conceive to be Bav/iaa-rov TI AI9INQN ZQIQN fooW/caXeiov, i. e.
"o certain admirable Studio of Sculpture.'" That works of sculpture
were called X,G>a XiSma, is evident from Philemon. (Athenaei 605. f.)
dXX' ev SaVf;1 fJ-tv tow XiBivov £<o'oi> irore
dvBpayjros iipd(r6rj Tts.
At Samos too a man once fell in love
With the Statue in the Temple.
And Aristotle (in Diog. Laert. v. p. 277. quoted by Meineke,) Jnia
X id iv a dvadelvai Ait xal AflTji/a. Hence the frieze of a building is called
its zophorus, Xiflos irpos m Ta %ma, see Erectheum Inscription, and