Note 169 — Chapter III · THE SANCTUARIES THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE CITADEL.

I see to my great regret that Prof. Ernest Gardner in translating Thucydides II. 15 renders ἱερόν throughout by ‘temple’, ‘the temple of Olympian Zeus, the Pythium, the temple of Earth.’ Though templum in Latin is used to denote any sanctified space of earth or air, surely such a use of temple is misleading in English.