The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-07-29

looks the ordinary life OF his contemporaries.
As his work proceeded. however. Pausanias
seems TO have awakened now and then TO a
dim consciousness that men and women were
still living and toiling around him. that fields
were still poughed and harvests reaped. and
that the vine and the olives still yielded their
fruit. although Theseus and Agamemnon.
Cimon and Pericles. Philip and Alexander.
were no more. To this gradual widening
OF his interests We owe the few peeps which
In his later books Pausanias affords at his
contemporaries in their daily life. Thus no
lets us see the tall and stalwart highlanders
Of Daulis: the handsome and Industrious women
Of Patre. weaving with deft fingers the hno
flax OF their native fields into headdresses
and other feminine finery: the fishermen OF
Bulls putting out to fish for the purple shell
In the Gulf Of Corinth, the p~otters Of AulS
turning their wheels In the little seaside town
from which Agamemnon sailed for Troy. and
the apothecaries Of Ch9ronea d~istilling a fra
grant and healing balm from roses and lilies.
from rises and narcissuses. culled In peace
full gardens on the battlefield where Athens
and Thebes, side by side. had made the last
stand for the freedom Of Greece.
As his work goes on. too. Pausanias takes
more and more notice Of the aspect and nat
ural products Of the country which he describes.
Thus he remarks the baroness Of the Cir
rhean Plain. the fertility Of the valley OF tho
Phocian Cephisus, the vineyards OF Ambro-
sus. the palms and dates Of Aulls. the olive oil
Of Tithorea. that was sent TO the Emperor.
and the bikes that damned of the water from
the fields In the msrshy flats Of Caphye and
ThiSbe. He mentions the various kinds Of
oaks that grew In the Arcadian woods; the
wild strawberry bushes of Mount Helicon
on which the goats browsed; the hellebore.
both black and white, Of Anticyra. and the
berry Of Ambrosus which yielded the crimson
dye. lie observed the focks Of bustards that
haunted the banks OF the Phocian Cephisus.
the huge %tortoises that crawled In the forests
Of Arcadia. the white blackbirds OF Mount
Cyllene. the two sorts Of poultry at Tana-
era. the purple shell llshed In the sea At Bulls.
the trout of the Aroanius River and the eels Of
the Copiac Lake.
All these instances are taken from the last
three books. In the earlier Tart of his work.
he coadescended 10 mention the honey Of
Hymettus, the old silver mines Of Lauriun.
the olives OF Cynuria. the fine fax OF Ellis, the
purple shell of the Laconian coast, the marble
Of Pentrlicus. the mussel-stone Of Niagara and
the green porphyry Of Croce@. On the state
OF the roads he is even more reticent than on
that of the country. The dreadful Scironian
road which ran along a perilous ledge Of tho
Megarian sea cliffs at a giddy height above
the breakers. had lately been widencd by
Hadrlan. An excellent carriage road much fire.
quented led from Tegea TO Argos. Another
road traversible by vehicles went over the pass
Of the Tretus, where the railway from COriAth
TO Argos now runs: and We have the word Of
Pausauias for IL that a driving road crossed
Parnassus from Delphi TO 1iihorea. On the
other hand, the road from Sicyon 10 Iitane was
lmpassable for carriages. a rough hill track
led from th@ronea TO Stiris, the laih along
the rugged, mountainous coast between lerna
and Thy rea wae then. a. II l. now, narrow and
difficult. and the Pass of the Ladder over Mount
Artemisius from Argos 10 Manilnea was 50
steep that, in some places. steps had to be cut
In the rock TO facilitate the descent. OF Tho
path UP to tho Cory clan cave on Mount Par
nassus. the Greek author observes that II IL
easier for a man on foot than for mules or
horses. Mr.. Frazer, who speaks from personal
observation. says that Greek mules and horses
can do wonders IN the way of scrambling up
and down eyecrable mountain paths on slopes
that, resemble the roof OF n house, but II would
sorely. tax even their energies 10 ascend TO the
Corycian cave.