176) and Livy, (xxxvi.

15.) The narrow entrance of Greece was probably enlarged by each successive ravisher.] [Footnote 7: He passed, says Eunapius, (in Vit.Philosoph.p.93, edit.
Commelin, 1596,) through the straits, of Thermopylae.] [Footnote 8: In obedience to Jerom and Claudian, (in Rufin.l.ii.

191,) I have mixed some darker colors in the mild representation of Zosimus, who wished to soften the calamities of Athens.
Nec fera Cecropias traxissent vincula matres.
Synesius (Epist.clvi.p.272, edit.

Petav.) observes, that Athens, whose sufferings he imputes to the proconsul's avarice, was at that time less famous for her schools of philosophy than for her trade of honey.] [Footnote 9:-- Vallata mari Scironia rupes, Et duo continuo connectens aequora muro Isthmos.
-- Claudian de Bel.

Getico, 188.
The Scironian rocks are described by Pausanias, (l.i.c.44, p.