ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ATHENS. 



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

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

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

 vention of the long walls which stopped his passage on the right, 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 Enneaerunos. 



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 his words: — "H ye ovv ev tu AvKeia r, 7rXcx.Ta.v0s, % nrotroL tov o^erov en 

 vex oiicroc 7T£pt rpeig zee) TpiotnovTcx, Tvyiyeiq d<py\v.ev e%*<r# tottov re apa. xul 



rpoQviv. Pliny repeats this wonderful account of the plane-tree with 

 some variations ; noticing a fountain here: — "Nunc est clara (Platanus) 

 in Li/ceo, gelidi fo7itis, socia amcenitate" &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. | 



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

 words, vi <$e itoXiq, £ijp« Trucra. evvefpog, appears to represent the city 

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

 voXtg here applies to the district or country of Attica, %wp«, 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 K^vd^x 7 ! and Kpvjvo<pvXct£. In 

 the Politics of Aristotle, he is called ett^sXijt^ k^vuv. Themistocles 

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

 superior one of this sort ; for Plutarch says, r,v dvroc^ ore ruv 'ASypytriv 



* Theophrastus, Hist. Plant, lib. i. c. x. ; Varro, lib. i. c. 3J.; and Pliny, lib. xii. c. 1. 

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

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

 % Vide his Life in the X Rhet. 

 § Adv. Post. cxiv. 



