[50] Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
[51] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 212.
[52] Στὸ Ἱερὸν, sacred place.
[53] Mr. Ludlow says, in one of his letters, and also informs me privately, that Mr. Kavvadias has found the theatre to be without the peribolus of the Sacred Grove. Following Pausanias, Mr. Leake states it to be within the enclosure.
[54] There is reason to hope that Mr. Kavvadias will make valuable discoveries in excavating its ruins.
[55] Anything about a physician which might be the means of conveying disease from one to another is seriously objectionable. Woolen material is not the proper thing in the outside clothing, and one attending cases of contagious diseases should not wear gloves, unless he is wont to wash his hands well after each visit.
[56] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 213.
[57] Travels in Morea, vol. ii, p. 428. The Æsculapian priest is not represented as an honest personage in the “Plutus” of Aristophanes. He stealthily gathers the cakes from the altars and “consecrates these into a sack.”
[58] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 27.