Note (return) — THE TEMPLE ON THE ACROPOLIS BURNT BY THE PERSIANS.

The people are represented as coming up to the Acropolis in crowds, filling the road. The way becoming blocked by numbers, in their eagerness they begin to climb up by ladders, first from he Pelasgicum itself, through which the road passes. As this space became filled, they placed their ladders a little further from the road, in the Aesculapieum to the right and by the Areopagus to the left. Still others come, and they must move still further out to find room, to the grave of Talos beyond the Aesculapieum and to the Anaceum beyond the Areopagus. In another passage of Lucian, 121 Hermes declares that Pan dwells just above the Pelasgicum; so it reached at least as far as Pan's grotto.