ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ATHENS. 



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bably the same gate through which, at certain festivals, Xenophon 

 recommends that the Athenian cavalry should issue, after they had 

 made a procession round the Agora ; and thence gallop off in 

 squadrons as far as the Eleusinium. As the Ceramic gate appears, 

 from this passage of Xenophon, to have been at some distance from 

 Enneacrunos, we must conclude that there was a point of communica- 

 tion with that public fountain through some gate which was nearer 

 to it, if not directly opposite ; although no such gate is expressly 

 mentioned by any ancient author. A gate, however, called Diochares, 

 is mentioned by Strabo in this quarter ; which I suspect to have been 

 situated precisely in the spot where it was so much wanted. The 



passage is as follows : — Eicr) p\v ovv at ir^yoti xuSctpQ tea) ttotI^ vSccTog, 

 ug tpa,<nv, lx,rog ruv Aio^apovg KccXovyAvuv ttvXuv^ 7rXyi<riov tov Avksiov, This 



is the only fountain which Strabo speaks of at Athens. How im- 

 probable, therefore, is it, that he should have passed over in silence 

 so important an object as Enneacrunos, while he mentions a fountain 

 which must have been comparatively insignificant? Besides, I know 

 of no springs [jrviyca) to the eastward of Enneacrunos; except one 

 which is about a mile above the Stadium. But the words which 

 follow my quotation more particularly designate Enneacrunos : — 



npOTSpOV <?£ XOi) K^TjVV] KUTCt<rK£Va.(TTO Tig 7rXvj(TlOV TToXXS KOii KOiXti * U^OiTOg. 



Nor could this be the fountain which is so commended in the 

 Phasdrus of Plato ; for Strabo expressly mentions that fountain in 

 another part of his narrative, and in a manner which shews that they 

 were very distant from each other, f 



* " When we had passed these columns (of Jupiter Olympius)," says Stuart, " and the 

 eastern end of the Peribolus, of which we found two hundred and thirty feet not utterly 

 demolished, we arrived immediately at the vestiges of the city wall and of one of its gates, 

 probably that called Diochares. We were now on the side of the Ilissus; hence we de- 

 scended to a copious and beautiful spi-ing, at present called Callirbe, flowing into the 

 channel of the river." Vol. iii. p. 23. — Chandler, too, speaking of the foundations of 

 this gate and Callirbe, expresses his opinion that the passage of Strabo above quoted refers 

 to the latter. 



f See the passage in the Phaedrus relating to these springs pr fountains, and their 

 situation. 



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