. A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806. t likemadmen; that prudence was one of the first Mohamedan virtues;but that if he should ever find himself obliged to fight against thieves,his valour should be at least equal to that of a , in the mean time, put on his Tatars cloak, and reassumedthe imposing halpak, he lost his late abject appearance, and repos-sessed himself of his usual dictatorial tone: Cum pulchris tunicis sumet nova consilia et Very active measures were taken about this time by the Porte, forthe suppress
. A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806. t likemadmen; that prudence was one of the first Mohamedan virtues;but that if he should ever find himself obliged to fight against thieves,his valour should be at least equal to that of a , in the mean time, put on his Tatars cloak, and reassumedthe imposing halpak, he lost his late abject appearance, and repos-sessed himself of his usual dictatorial tone: Cum pulchris tunicis sumet nova consilia et Very active measures were taken about this time by the Porte, forthe suppression of the formidable bands of robbers who infested theMorea, and had hitherto set the government at defiance. Their pre-datory force found an almost impregnable protection in the loftymountains, and in the thick and extensive forests of Arcadia, Mes-senia, and Laconia; while it was imagined that they were indirectlyassisted by the Greeks of those mountainous districts. A ferman wassent from the Grand Signor to the Pasha of the Morea, with orders 1 Horace, Epist. b. 1. Epist. 18. v. © s 1g RUINS OF MEGALOPOLIS. 375 to employ every possible means for their destruction. The first stepof the Pasha was to convoke all the bishops of the Morea, and toorder them to fulminate excommunications against those Greeks whoafforded any kind of assistance to the thieves, and to grant a remis-sion of a certain number of sins to those who assisted in their ex-tirpation. This plan had its full effect; and before we quitted Greecemost of them had left the Morea, and had taken refuge in the Ionianislands, where they entered the British service. Strabo dwells very little on Megalopolis, which he says wasnearly deserted in his time: it Avas fifty stadia in circuit. Plutarch informs us, that when Cleomenes took Megalopolis, itwas as great a city as Sparta. Its most valuable paintings andsculptures were conveyed to the Laconian capital, and great part ofMegalopolis Avas destroyed. It was built un
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