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ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ATHENS. 



what new direction, Pausanias advances by the Stoae which he de- 

 scribes, towards the Ceramicus. * It is in vain to attempt ascertaining 

 this by any remains of the public buildings which formerly stood in 

 that quarter, for, as I have already observed, they no longer exist : 

 but there is one natural feature among the objects which engaged the 

 attention of Pausanias beyond the Ceramicus, which may be recog- 

 nised without difficulty ; I mean the fountain which he calls 

 Enneacrnnos, and which Thucydides indentifies with Calliroe ; a name 

 which, after a lapse of more than 2,000 years, it still retains, f A lit- 

 tle way, too, farther on, in the same direction, were the remains of the 

 Eleusinium, when Stuart visited Athens. These have since been 

 wholly removed, and it is no small obligation which we owe to that 

 traveller that he had previously measured and described them with so 

 much accuracy. These objects suffice to ascertain the general bear- 

 ing of the Ceramicus from the Pirsean gate, which is south-easterly, 

 and in some measure, too, its extent ; but the breadth of the Cerami- 

 cus, as it is limited on one side by the walls of the city, and on the 

 other by the buildings immediately under the Acropolis, could not 

 have exceeded one half of its length. We are not informed by Pau- 

 sanias whether it extended as far as the walls, but as he notices a gate 

 near the Stoa called the Poikile, and as it appears by a passage in 

 iEschines $ that the Poikile was in the public square, and from 

 another in Lucian, that it was in the Ceramicus, it is evident that 

 the walls of the city must have been very near, if not contiguous to 



* 27o«i §e sio-iv ol-ko tmv 7tuXXwv, eg tov Keqa.jj.ei-H.6v. The Ceramicus, therefore, could not 

 have been far from this point. 



f Stuart is the first who notices this very remarkable fact, and he speaks of Calliroe as a 

 copious and beautiful spring which flows into the channel of the Ilissus. The Albanian 

 women of Athens wash their clothes here, and the water is collected in a small circular 

 bason or pit for that purpose. Near it there is a fall of several feet, in the bed of the 

 Ilissus, and some perforations may be perceived in the face of the rock, which are sup- 

 posed by Fauvel to be the traces of Enneacrunos. 



t In Ctesiph. — in Piscat. both quoted by Barthclemy. — The words of Lucian are, 

 'EvrocvSu yug sv K.egX)j.eixZ v7rojj.evoviJ.ev uvrrp. y 8e rj'Se ttov a<pl%ercu, liruviouvct l£ AxaSjjjU.iaj, 

 die iregnrxTrjo'ete xai iv Tlomlk*. 



