104 Since these words were written, M. Holleaux’s researches at Akræphiæ have not only discovered the inscription containing the Emperor Nero’s speech to the Greeks, but also many curious remains from the temple of Apollo Ptoos. _ 105 ὅστις δὲ τὰ σὺν τέχνῃ πεποιημένα ἐπίπροσθε τίθεται τῶν ἀρχαιόητα ἡκώτων, καὶ τάδε ἐστιν οἱ θεάσασθαι._ I. 24. 3. 106 Cf. Plut. _Agesilaus_, chap. xvii. 107 An account of the discovery, by the only surviving member of the party, Mr. G. L. Taylor, has been published by Mr. W. S. Vaux in the _Trans. of the Roy. Soc. of Lit._, 2nd series, vol. viii. pp. 1, _sqq._ The latter gentleman called attention to his paper when the subject was being discussed in the _Academy_ in 1877. A very different story was told to Colonel Mure, and has passed from his _Travels_ into Murray’s _Guide_. The current belief among the Greeks seems still to be that a Greek patriot called Odysseus, perceiving the stone protruding from the clay, and, on striking it, hearing its hollow ring, dug it out and broke it in pieces, imagining it to be a record of Philip’s victory over Hellenic liberty. Some ill-natured people added that he hoped to find treasure within it. 108 Mr. Taylor and his friends thought it must have stood in the attitude of the now abolished lion on Northumberland House. This did not appear so to us; but it is difficult to decide. The restoration by Siegel in the _Mon. of the Soc. Arch._ of Rome, for 1856, of which Mr. A. S. Murray most kindly sent me a drawing, makes the posture a _sitting_ one, like that of the sitting lion in front of the Arsenal at Venice. There is a small sitting lion from Calymnæ, of the same posture, in the Brit. Museum. The Greeks, when my account was first published in their papers, became fully alive to the value of this monument, and anxious for its restoration. There had been a custodian appointed to watch over it, even when I was there, but he chanced to be absent when we paid our visit. 109 Since these words were written, the labors of the Greek archæologists have discovered the great _polyandrion_ or common tomb of the dead, which the lion commemorated. They lay in rows, many of them with broken bones, showing how they had received their death-wound, and with them were fragments of broken weapons. Never have we come closer to an ancient battle, or discovered more affecting records of a great struggle. 110 This seems to be implied in the account of the murder of Laïus by Œdipus, on this very road, as it is described in Sophocles’s _Œdipus Tyrannus_. 111 Indeed Tripolitza lies between the ancient sites of Mantinea and Tegea, and quite close to the latter.