Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three bookes of the Attick antiquities. Containing the description of the citties glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices, account of their yeare, as also a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rous.

Francis Rous

Date:: 1637

Credit: Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three bookes of the Attick antiquities. Containing the description of the citties glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices, account of their yeare, as also a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rous. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$S Ay ch&olo'gt & Attic & lLib*\ *,C fide ofthis hill,on which the Acropolis is built , growes a certaine kinde of herbe, that farre off, in the night lealon, ojuesa mofl: fhiningand glittering light, to which when a man fliall approach,he fhafi difcerne nothing but the herbe it felfe. Of which matter Iferioufly wifh that I could teftify the truth. It was delivered to fide,with good credit. The walls that environthis,are none now,faies Favolius, but in former time it hath beene well fenced; fome part thereof • ; !\ erefted-by thofe two 7*/cv«»-brothers, who leaving their ‘ country,livedhere vnderthe^cro/Jo/^.called mhe-fyi, Fe- aUb9?- /W.Storkes.A* t&I »»«W, for their wandring, * Strabo, RV , n\ , b 7>//Wc fayes their names were Furyalus and Hyperbhu. b Nat.wit.1.7 The twQ t]iat firft buiicboufesofbrickat4Athens., whenfor- C'5 ’’ ■ merly they had Caires for dwelling places. But by the autho. rity ofP4*p»/<«,diough the Printers and Scribes haue done both that Author, and the perions wrong, in puttinga falfe name vpon one of them , I will doe them none. Read then Later arias domtss conJHtrtirunt prims Agrolas & Hyperbsut a In Attic.p. fratres Athcstis,&icA Faufanuui^di # >6 z6.l. i4. prom thefe was that part which they edified called Pelargs- mm. Artfiopbanes in iAvibus. yii J1' aa)tsi0if« -nit tn\a»t to Tlikctpjmlr }‘- The other part of the Acropolis which was left naked,Cimon the fonne ofMiltsaJUsdotheA .Paujanias in the fore quoted place- ThefeWalls admitted no gate but one, forarely beair- tified with that coftly PropyDum or porch, on which Pericles ■rfTol.Oft'.U isdifeommended by a Demetrius ‘Pba/areusfor disburfing t Val-.Max, fogreata fummedfmoney. ‘ For which hee wasnot finally Ijb.j.c.1. ; troi,bled how hee might giuevp his accounts to the people; His Nephew Alcibiades^mte(orzkdn%\\m fomewhatfad, and demanding the caufe.to whpm when his vnkle replied, that it was about giving his accounts.feeke rather, quoth he, how you may no t giue them. By which counfelt the Atheni- . aits were entangled with that neighbour., watte .agairift tfee Lacedemonians they 'found' not vacancy foe ah audit. . ■ %$

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