Rhamnus

, a town of Attica, famous for a temple of Amphiaraus, and a statue of the godde Nemesis, who was from thence called Rhamnus i a . This statue was made by Phidias, out of a block of Parian marble, which the Persians intended as a pillar to be erected to commemorate their expected victory over Greece. Pausanias , bk. 1 .— Pliny , bk. 36 .