ABSTRACT
[334/1] After seeing and pondering over the ruins and remains of ancient Gouro, the wonder raised by them could not fail to remind one of the wise words spoken long since by the philosopher Sophocles: Omnia tempore consumuntur, " Time at length devours and consumes all things". 1 It is the river of forgetfulness, the all-consuming Styx, which the Poet-prince Maron describes in Hell.
