[201]. See Col. Leake, Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit. i. 114–283.
[202]. Poppo, Prolegg. in Thucyd. i. 22.
[203]. Paus. i. 17. 5.
[204]. Paus. i. 32. 3. sqq. “We observed the long-legged plover near Marathon; the grey plover and the sand plover on the eastern coast of Attica.” Sibth. Walp. Mem. i. 76. Chandler, ii. 83.
[205]. Where Sophocles and his ancestors were buried. Chandler, ii. 95.
[206]. Clem. Alex. Protrept. § 2. t. i. p. 16. seq. where he relates the story of Demeter and Baubo.
[207]. On one of the projecting roots of Mount Ægaleus, which anciently, according to Statius, was well-wooded, and clothed like Hymettos with thyme.—Theb. xii. 631. Suid. v. Μᾶσσον. This mountain produced likewise an abundance of figs (Theoc. Eidyll. i. 147), which were considered the best in Attica.—Athen. xiv. 66. Meurs. Rel. Att. c. i. p. 4. seq. Cf. Leake, Topog. 71.
[208]. Il. γ. 445. where we find its ancient name to have been Kranäe.—Cf. Eurip. Helen. 1672. Strab. ix. 1. p. 245.—Pausanias (i. 35. 1) has preserved another tradition representing Helen as landing here on her return from Troy.—Chandler, ii. 7.
[209]. Wordsworth, Athens and Attica, p. 262.
[210]. Ib. 28. ap. Müll. Æginet. p. 8.