3<o6 Dr. Falconer on the Style and Fafte 
cultivated fpot: but that it was planted by 
that General, and had water conveyed to it;* * * § 
whether this water was brought merely for ufe 
to water the trees, or for ornament, does not 
appear. It was divided into gymnafia, or 
places of exercife, and philofophic walks, {haded 
with trees. Thefe are faid to have flourifh- 
ed very well, until deftroyed by Sylla,j- (when 
he befieged Athens) as well as thofe in the Ly- 
ceum.J 
Near the Academy, were the gardens of the 
philofophers,§ of Plato,|| and of Epicurus,^ 
which, however, were probably but fmall. 
The feene of Plato’s Dialogue concerning 
Beauty, is elegantly deferibed, as being on the 
* T>)y Axa-Sr, jjAciv uvvfyov v.uv avxuygxs xxrxppvroy 
«c7roht^xi «X<ro5 vni cmtov S'|o/aoij y.ca avuy.w, 
■n-s^waTsis. Plutarch Vit. Cimon. 
-{• rot; tspot; u\uvxt xv txtips 
«ivtyoq>ofUT«-Tnv ovaxv, xai ro Xvxitoy. Vit. Syllae. 
J The trees in the Lyceum were probably Plane trees* 
Varro quotes Theophrallus, for the relation of the large 
fize and extent of the roots of one in that place. 
De re ruftica. Cap. XXXVIf. 
§ O/z.oiw; St xu i r, ukuS^i/mu o» xuttoi rut (pCKoaatyuv. 
Strabon. L. IX. 
|| ... - cujus (Platonis) enim hortuli propinqui non 
memoriam folum mihi afferunt, fed ipfum videntur in con- 
ipeftu meo ponere. Cicero de iinib. L. V. 
In Epicuri hortis, quos modo prsteribamus. Ibidem; 
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