("The body also of Danaë endured to exchange the heavenly light against the darkness in the halls covered with brazen plates; hidden in a sepulchral chamber, she was fettered").
[137] Pausanias (ix. 38) says of this Treasury: "The Treasury of Minyas is the most wonderful edifice in Greece, and is second to no work of art abroad; it is built in the following manner: it consists of stone and has a circular form; the summit is not very pointed; it is said that the topmost stone holds together the whole building."
[138] 'A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece.'
[139] Paus. VI. 19, 1; X. 11, 1.
[140] II. 16, 6. See the passage fully quoted in the next chapter, p. 59.
[141] The reader is warned not to confound this with Veli Pasha's attempt to rifle the other Treasury, mentioned on p. 42.
[142] Horace, Epod. V. 86.
[143] From αἴξ (root αἰγ), a goat.
[144] Il. II. 101.
[145] Homer, Od. III. 263-275.