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Prom the bed of the river after visiting that 
part of it where the marble bridge of three arches, 
mentioned by all writers to the time of Stuart 5 , 
conducted across the Ilissus to AcR/E 6 , the scene 
of one of Plato s Dialogues 7 we ascended to 
view the remains of the STADIUM PANATHE- stadium 
. . . Panathe- 
NAICUM, which was, in fact, a continuation ot 
(excepting the Cephissus) in any part of it. Dio Chrysostom says, 
there are not great mountains to be seen, nor are there rivers flowing 
through the country, p^n fora/to} tiixppinrit, Orat. 6. Athens itself 
was supplied with well-water ; hence the number of antieut wells we 
observe cut in the rock about the city near Lycabtttus. Pausanias 
(lib. i.), as well as Plutarch in his Life of Solon, makes mention of 
them. The exportation of wood and pitch was forbidden by law, as we 
find from the Scholiast on a passage in the Knights of Aristophanes. 
What the country afforded was required for the use of the navy. 
The Lyceum and Cynosarges were, according to Dicaarchus, xaraSevSga, 
well wooded; because, as places of public resort, they were much 
attended to ; but trees are not now to be found there. Jt would be 
as difficult to find the pure and limpid waters of the Ilissus, 
xo.fa.oa. Koti Sne.Qayr,, which Plato mentions in the Pliaedrus ; there is 
never any quantity of water in the river-bed. In former times, the 
channel was full. Besides the passage from Plato, the following 
allusion of Cratinus to a famous orator supports this opinion : 
Ye Gods, what a flow of words is here ! 
Ilissus is in his throat. "\\ttfft <> T Qagvyi. 
and we know that the Pelasgi were accused of way-laying the 
Athenian women, when they went from the city to draw water from 
the Ilissus." Walpole's JUS. Journal. 
(5) See the View of it in Stuart's Athens. The bridge no longer 
exists. 
(6) ALiafiiffi Jl rtn El}.iff/ro*, %u(/iot "Ayaai xaXovpiioi, x. <r. X. Pausanias 
Attica, c. 19. p. 45. Lips. 1696. 
7) The Pfuedrus; so called from one of the disciples of Socratet. 
