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200 THE GRACES, APOIJ.,0 AND EB8US. [cHAP. XXV.
On the left hand at the entrance is the word
X A P I T O (that is, X.apirwv, dedicated to the Graces,
and not yxtpno%) similarly inscribed; and a stone
basin beneath it to supply water for libations to the
Graces.
Proceeding to the interior, we meet on the right
side with another inscription, of which the sense is
less intelligible, as the rock in which it is cut is more
corroded by time.
TA NTEA
Z OKW —
KAITO
Having turned to the left round the corner into
the other arm of the cave, we see on the left side
a horizontal ledge chiselled in the rock, in which two
basins, now filled with clear water, are excavated.
Here, as in the Nymphseum of Homer,
1ev oe KptjTtjpes re Kal dfA<pt<poprjts eaaiv
Xa'ivoi.
Are basins hewn and amphoras of stone.
On a perpendicular margin beneath these two
basins, two words are inscribed, one under each ;
APOAAflNOJ : EPSO
the former of which words enjoins that libations
should be made to Apollo, the pastoral or Nomian
1 Odyss. xiii. 105.
On the left hand at the entrance is the word
X A P I T O (that is, X.apirwv, dedicated to the Graces,
and not yxtpno%) similarly inscribed; and a stone
basin beneath it to supply water for libations to the
Graces.
Proceeding to the interior, we meet on the right
side with another inscription, of which the sense is
less intelligible, as the rock in which it is cut is more
corroded by time.
TA NTEA
Z OKW —
KAITO
Having turned to the left round the corner into
the other arm of the cave, we see on the left side
a horizontal ledge chiselled in the rock, in which two
basins, now filled with clear water, are excavated.
Here, as in the Nymphseum of Homer,
1ev oe KptjTtjpes re Kal dfA<pt<poprjts eaaiv
Xa'ivoi.
Are basins hewn and amphoras of stone.
On a perpendicular margin beneath these two
basins, two words are inscribed, one under each ;
APOAAflNOJ : EPSO
the former of which words enjoins that libations
should be made to Apollo, the pastoral or Nomian
1 Odyss. xiii. 105.