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CHAPTER XXXIV.
X.a\6irov iji/ iropeveoBat ccvS Trj<: Yle\oirovvtj<rov rtjv eic 'ABtjucK
odov, oviiv fxepo<! xaOapov diro Xya-rtSv Kaxovpyiav e^ovaav.
Putt. Thes. c. vi.
It was dangerous to travel by the road leading from the Morea
to Athens, since no part of it was clear from the outrages of
robbers.
Oct. 19.
This description of the state of the Isthmus of
Corinth in the days of Theseus, gives a very correct
picture of what it is now. For several months the en-
trance into the Peloponnesus from Continental Greece
has been rendered impassable for travellers, by the
violence of the military bandits who now infest the
pass. The advice which was then given to Theseus
by his mother iEthra is as prudent now as it was
then, and for the same reasons. In performing the
journey1 in the reversed direction, we adopt the coun-
sel which she then offered, and avoid the route by
land, to choose the passage by sea.
On setting out this morning from the gate of Athens
in our way to the Peirseus, we were cautioned by our
1 This excursion was made before King Otho's arrival in Greece.
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X.a\6irov iji/ iropeveoBat ccvS Trj<: Yle\oirovvtj<rov rtjv eic 'ABtjucK
odov, oviiv fxepo<! xaOapov diro Xya-rtSv Kaxovpyiav e^ovaav.
Putt. Thes. c. vi.
It was dangerous to travel by the road leading from the Morea
to Athens, since no part of it was clear from the outrages of
robbers.
Oct. 19.
This description of the state of the Isthmus of
Corinth in the days of Theseus, gives a very correct
picture of what it is now. For several months the en-
trance into the Peloponnesus from Continental Greece
has been rendered impassable for travellers, by the
violence of the military bandits who now infest the
pass. The advice which was then given to Theseus
by his mother iEthra is as prudent now as it was
then, and for the same reasons. In performing the
journey1 in the reversed direction, we adopt the coun-
sel which she then offered, and avoid the route by
land, to choose the passage by sea.
On setting out this morning from the gate of Athens
in our way to the Peirseus, we were cautioned by our
1 This excursion was made before King Otho's arrival in Greece.
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