Herod restored its ancient beauty and magnificence.

Nor was the liberality of that illustrious citizen confined to the walls of Athens.

The most splendid ornaments bestowed on the temple of Neptune in the Isthmus, a theatre at Corinth, a stadium at Delphi, a bath at Thermopylae, and an aqueduct at Canusium in Italy, were insufficient to exhaust his treasures.
The people of Epirus, Thessaly, Euboea, Boeotia, and Peloponnesus, experienced his favors; and many inscriptions of the cities of Greece and Asia gratefully style Herodes Atticus their patron and benefactor.
[70] [Footnote 69: Aulus Gellius, in Noct.Attic.i.2, ix.

2, xviii.

10, xix.12.Phil ostrat.p.