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the Ceramicus. Nor have we the means of knowing from Pausanias, 

 whether the Phaleric gate opened directly into the Ceramicus, al- 

 though it is not improbable that one of the gates in this quarter was 

 so designated in the following passage of Philostratus, quoted by 



Meursius : nctpriX^zy tig t° Ta) v Ts^/vijiov fiov\eu]{[)iov, o coKodopiflui ttu^o. rag 



Thus much may be said in regard to the breadth, extent, and direc- 

 tion of the Ceramicus, which comprised the Agora or public square. 

 Pausanias, indeed, omits all mention of the latter, until he has finished 

 his account of the Ceramicus (if we except those allusions to it which 

 are observable in the epithet he gives to the bronze Hermes on his 

 way to the Poikile) ; but as it appears from various passages of 

 iEschines and of Lucian already quoted, that the Poikile Stoa was in 

 the Agora as well as in the Ceramicus, we must necessarily draw the 

 conclusion that the Agora likewise was in the Ceramicus. Barthe- 

 lemy observes, that, according to iEschines, the Metroum was in the 

 Agora, and he proves by a passage of the same author, as well as by 

 the authority of Plutarch, Suidas, and Harpocration, that the palace 

 of the senate, Povkevjr^tov, was there likewise. * The Hermes, or a 

 Stoa so called, is moreover placed by Barthelemy in the Agora, first 

 on the authority of Mnesimachus (apud Athenceum), who said in one 

 of his comedies, " Go you into the Agora, to the Hermes !" and on 

 that of Xenophon (de Mag. Equit.) who says, — "At certain festivals it 

 is proper that the horsemen render the homage which is due to the 

 temples and the statues which are in the Agora. They will com- 

 mence at the Hermes, make the circuit of the Agora, and return to 

 the Hermes." 



The Agora, therefore, although not expressly named by Pausanias 

 in his account of the public buildings which were situated in the 

 Ceramicus, must be understood as comprehended in its periphery, 

 and as occupying a part of the ground which he passes over. 



The proofs already given of the Ceramicus having been situated 

 to the south of the Acropolis, may be regarded as conclusive ; and I 



* JEschin. in Ctesiph. Plut. x. Rhet. Vit. t. ii. Suid. in M^gay. 



