stitution, though there was toleration
for a great variety. Many illustrious persons were initiated in the
Eleusinian mysteries, which were maintained until Christianity became
the general religion of the Empire. Marcus Aurelius, when he visited
Athens, was initiated. The ceremonial of the temple may be collected
to a certain extent from the ancient writers, but no one has yet
succeeded in divining what were the peculiar doctrines of this place.]

[Footnote 261: Much has been written about this story, which cannot be
literally true. The writings of Aristotle were not unknown to his
immediate followers. If there is any truth in this story as told by
Plutarch and Strabo (p. 608) it must refer to the original manuscripts
of Aristotle. Part of the text of Plutarch is here manifestly corrupt.
The subject has been examined by several writers. See art.
"Aristotle," _Biog. Dict._ of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, and Blakesley, _Life of Aristotle_, Cambridge 1839.]

[Footnote 262: This is Strabo the Geographer, but the passage is not
in the Geography, and probably was in an historical work [Greek:
Hupomnaemata historika], Strabo, p. 13) which he wrote, and which is
cited by Plutarch in his Life of Lucullus, c. 28.]

[Footnote 263: These warm springs, which still exist, are on the west
coast of Euboea, opposite to the mainland. They were much resorted to
in Plutarch's time, as appears from his Symposium (iv. Probl. 4). The
place is named Galepsus in Wyttenbach's edition, but in a note the
editor admits that the true name is AEdepsus. Demetrius Calatianus
(quoted by Strabo, p. 60), who had recorded all the earthquakes in
Greece, says that the hot springs at Thermopylae and at AEdepsus once
ceased to flow for three days owing to an earthquake, and those of
AEdepsus, when they flowed again, broke out in a fresh place. The hot
springs near Cape Therma in Euboea are supposed to be those of AEdepsus.
They are more copious than the springs of Thermopylae on the opposite
mainland, but of the same kind. "The water rushes down in a copious
stream into the sea, the vapour from which is visible at a
considerable distance." (_Penny Cyclopaedia_, art. "Euboea.")]

[Footnote 264: Halaeae should probably be written Halae. It was near the
Euripus, within Boeotia and on the borders of Phokia. (Pansaunias, ix.
24.)]

[Footnote 265: The usual passage from Italy to Greece and Greece to
Italy was between Brundisium and Dyrrac