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Rh to tand, and depoit its ediment, as Arrian ays of the Phais, it becomes like that river, limpid, and excellent for drink.

What Arrian ays repecting the tatue of Cybele, and its reemblance, both in attitude and accompaniments, to the one by Phidias at Athens, argues trongly in favour of the early intercoure, which is uppoed to have ubited between Greece and this country. The tatue of the Goddes is decribed by Arrian as holding a cymbal in her hand, with lions under her throne, or eat. This is exactly the ame repreentation, as is to be found in Montfaucon's Antiquities, of which many examples both from coins and culpture are produced. Arrian oberves, that the tatue of Cybele at Athens was placed. This word was applied in general to the temples of Cybele, as appears from many ancient coins and incriptions, as well as authors. Paufanias peaks of a at Elis in Greece, which he remarks, as ingular from its not having a tatue of Cybele in it.

Julius Pollux ays, that the temple of Cybele at Athens was called and Suidas, Harpocration, and Athenæus add, that it was the repoitory of the public records, and of the laws. At