grec. Il pardonne toute hérésie au philhellène, a celui qui admire son passé; il est bien moins disciple de Jésus et de saint Paul que de Plutarque et de Julien.” 58 The reader will find in my last chapter some further information concerning the remains of mediæval Greece. 59 I have seen it very full in June; I have also seen it almost dry in April, so that it depends upon the season whether the traveller will enjoy the coolness of the river, or turn with disappointment from its stony bed. 60 On a fine summer’s day, in the meadows about Eton, I was struck with the truth of this phrase. A light breeze was making all the poplars shiver beside the great elms, which stood in silence. 61 This was the military harbor, at least in the fourth century, B. C., when the architect Philo built a famous arsenal (_σκευοθήκη_) at its north-east corner, of which the plan and even details have been reconstructed by Dr. Dörpfeld from an important inscription recovered in 1881. 62 Thucydides, followed by modern historians, has nevertheless been inaccurate in his use of the expression _Long Walls_. He sometimes means the north and Phaleric wall, sometimes the north and south parallel walls, to the exclusion of the Phaleric wall. The long walls rebuilt by Conon were the latter pair, and thus not the same long walls as were finished in 456 B. C. 63 The reader who desires to see the best poetical picture of modern Athens should consult the tenth chapter in Mr. Symonds’s _Sketches in Italy and Greece_—one of the most beautiful productions of that charming poet in prose. 64 IX. § I. p. 244 (Tauchn.). 65 He reads, however, _φρίξουσι_, instead of Herodotus’s _φρύξουσι_. 66 There is now a railway from Athens to the mines (1887). 67 The earliest allusion to them is a line in Æschylus’s _Persæ_, where they come in so peculiarly, and without any natural suggestion, that they must have been in his day a new and surprising source of wealth. Atossa is inquiring of the chorus about Athens, and whether it possesses any considerable wealth. The chorus replies (v. 238): _ἀργύρου πηγή τις αὐτοῖς ἐστι, θησαυρὸς χθονός._ This inference of mine, made years ago, is now strongly confirmed by the recovered _Polity of the Athenians_, which says (chap. xxii.): “In the archonship of Nicodemus [484–3 B. C.], when the mines at Maroneia [as he calls them] were discovered (_ἐφάνη_), and there was a profit of 100 talents from the work, Themistocles,” etc.