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the city walls ; but when I got to the gate where the fountain of 

 Panops is, I there met with Hiijpothales." Now, when we recollect 

 the position of the Academy from whence he started, and the inter- 

 vention of the long walls which sto])i)ed his passage on the rjoht, no 

 doubt can remain of the fountain of Panops having been situated on 

 the north-eastern side of the city ; where it could have had no com- 

 munication with the Enneacrunos. 



We have evidence of the existence of an aqueduct soon after this 

 period in the Lyceum. It is mentioned by several writers *; but as 

 Theophrastus seems to have been the original authority, I shall give 



It in Ills words: — H ys o\jv iv tu Auzhu r, ttXcctocvo;, ri ttxtcx. tov ox^tov en 

 Via. o\)(Tcx, Trefj rpsif Jca* r^Mytovra. 'rr'nyjzt; acp^xev (^/^a?) £';^K(ra; tottov re u^ot. kccI 



Tfo^Yiv. Pliny repeats this wonderful account of the plane-tree with 

 some variations ; noticing a fountain here: — ''Nunc est dura (Platanus) 

 in Lyceo, gelidi fontis, socia amcrnitate,'' &c. It was, probably, one of 

 those trees which Plato in the dialogue above quoted mentions as 

 having been planted in the new Palaestra; the formation of which, 

 as well as the planting of the trees f , is ascribed by Plutarch to the 

 orator Lycurgus. J : . ■.: 



It is remarkable, that at this very period, Dictearchus, in the 

 words, r; cl ttoXic, (^rpa. 'TToicroi, ix. tvw^poc, appears to represent the city 

 as very ill supplied with water. But according to Gataker§, the word 

 -TToXig here applies to the district or country of Attica, %wpa, and not 

 to the city. 



We have another proof of the existence of these public works for 

 the supply of the city, in the offices of Kf^yiva^^yi and Kf>rivo(fvXa.p. In 

 the Politics of Aristotle, he is called hTifjLiXYirr,i; K^yjvm. Themistocles 

 seems at one period of his life, to have held an office, perhaps a 

 superior one of this sort ; for Plutarch says, iv kvtoc, ore ruv 'A3-/ivr:<7iv 



* Theophrastus, Hist. Plant, lib. i. c x. ; Varro, lib. i. c. 37.; and Pliny, lib. xii. c. 1. 

 f It is impossible that any tree, except the Pinus maritinia or the olive, could have 

 grown in such a dry and rocky soil as that of the Lyceum, without constant irrigation. 

 \ Vide his Lite in the X Khet. 

 i Adv. Post. cxiv. ■ ■ 



