Description of Greece

Pausanias

Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece, Volumes 1-4. Jones, W.H.S. (William Henry Samuel), translator; Ormerod, Henry Arderne, translator. London, New York: W. Heinemann, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918-1935.

  1. Verily I built a wall for the Trojans about their city,
  2. A wide wall and very beautiful, that the city might be impregnable;
  3. And thou, Phoebus, didst tend the shambling cows with crumpled horns.
Hom. Il. 21.446-448This, it may be conjectured, is the reason for the ox skull. On the market-place, in the open, is an image of Athena with the grave of Patreus in front of it.