[97] By this and the following inscription we find, there were several schools here, where young persons were trained up to athletic exercises in honour of _Hercules_. For as _Lipsius_ observes, _Saturnal. Serm._ _L._ iii. _c._ 23. _Athletis et gladiatoribus Hercules praeesse putabatur, qui facta ejus et robur aemularentur. De athletis lapis Graecus Romae indicat; in quo aliquoties nominati_, οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα ἀθληταὶ, id est, _Herculanei athletae_. So in other inscriptions we have οἱ περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον τεχνῖται, artists employed in the rites of _Bacchus_. [98] In this inscription the Ι is added to the last vowel of the dative case, as in that above, pag. 53. [99] _Iliad._ γ. ℣. 339. [100] See _Strabo_, _Lib._ xii. _pag._ 550. [101] See _Homer_, _Iliad._ β. _in catalog._ ℣. 335. [102] This river must be the _Granicus_, which seems to bend its course towards the _Peninsula_ of _Cyzicus_. [103] While I was absent from the _conáck_, some Turks brought medals to be sold, which I lost the opportunity of purchasing, because Mr. Farington suspected them to be spies. [104] Ἔπλευσαν ἐς Αἰγὸς ποταμοὺς, ἀντίον τῆς Λαμψάκου, διεῖχε δὲ ὁ Ἑλλήσποντος ταύτης σταδίους ὡς πεντεκαίδεκα. _Hist. Graec. L._ ii. _p._ 455. _edit. Leunclav._ [105] _Pag._ 42. [106] The _Hebrus_ is large and full in winter, yet carries but a slow stream, which in the summer time is scarce able to flow. Hence _Ovid._ Heroid. ii. ℣. 115. _Et sacer admissas exigit Hebrus aquas._ But _Virgil_, who, as appears from his geography of _Troy_, was not so well acquainted with these parts, says: Aen. i. ℣. 321. _Volucremque fuga praevertitur Hebrum._ [107] _Zosimus_, Lib. ii. p. 95. ed. Oxon. Καθ’ ὃ τωνος εειος ποταμὸς τῷ Ἑβρῳ συμβάλλει. [108] _Ibidem._ [109] See _Pythagorae Symbolum_, Προσκυνεῖν περιφερόμενος, _apud Lil. Gyrald. Tom._ ii. _p._ 669. _edit._ 1696. [110] So _Justin_ describing the rites of Bacchus, with which the soldiers of _Alexander_ were inspired says: _Exercitus ejus repentino impetu mentis in sacros dei ululatus instinctus, cum stupore regis, sine noxa discurrit._ Lib. xii. c. 7. [111] See this sect described, and called _Tzophilar_, by Hottinger, _Hist. orient. pag._ 365. [112] Concerning the longevity of the _Aemimontian_ Thracians see _Amm. Marc. L._ xxvii. _c._ 4. [113] Here I happily attained that wish of _Virgil_, Georg. Lib. ii. ℣. 488. _O, qui me gelidis in vallibus Haemi_ _Sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra!_ [114] _Suam quisque domum spatio circundat, sive adversus casus ignis remedium, sive inscitia aedificandi. Ne caementorum apud illos, aut tegularum usus._ Tacit. De m. G. c. xvi. [115] Aur. Victor. Epit. cap. XL. _Galerius ortus Dacia Ripensi, quem locum Romulianum ex vocabulo Romulae matris appellarat._ [116] The Sclavonian character is twofold; one said to be invented by _St. Hierom_, which is now used by the Rascians and Bosnians; the other by _St. Cyril_, proper to Valachia, Moldavia, Muscovy, _&c._