[251]. Paus. i. 22. 4.
[252]. Müll. De Phid. Vit. p. 18 seq.
[253]. Somewhere in a cavern in the rock of the Acropolis was a slab called the pillar of infamy, on which were engraved the names of traitors and other public delinquents. Thrasybulos accused Leodamas of having had his name on this pillar.—Aristot. Rhet. ii. 23.
[254]. Paus. i. 22. 8.
[255]. On the labyrinth at present shown in Crete, see Tournefort, i. 76. sqq.
[256]. They were votive offerings, and the impressions they made are still visible upon the marble.—Words. Athens and Attica, 117. Lachares afterwards, when Athens was besieged by Demetrius, carried them away with him into Bœotia.—Paus. i. 25. 7. To facilitate his escape, he is said to have scattered handfuls of golden Darics on the road, which, tempting the cavalry in pursuit, prevented his capture.—Polyæn. iii. 7. 1.
[257]. A conjecture of Müller, Minerv. Pol. v. 25.
[258]. Antiquarians have formed many ingenious conjectures; but to me it appears evidently to have been a female veil, such as Helenos in the Iliad (σ. 734) commands to be offered to the same goddess of citadels, by his mother and the other matrons of Troy.
[259]. Plut. Sol. § 10. Visconti, Mem. p. 18. Müll. Minerv. Pol. p. 27.
[260]. Dion. Cass. iv. 7.