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called the "arm," or " long arms." They are C * R 
thus mentioned by Livy 3 , and by Propertius*. 
A corrupt mode of writing the word Pir&eus 
seems to have been adopted by some authors, 
who express Ti&igaizug by Piraeus. Meursius, 
upon the testimony of all the early Greek autho- 
rities, is decisive for the former reading*. In 
his admirable treatise upon this harbour and its 
antiquities, he has concentrated with wonderful 
erudition every thing that the Antients have left 
concerning its history. In its original state it 
had been an island, whence it received its 
name 6 , like n.any later towns 7 , from its ferry 6 . 
(3) "Inter angustias semiruti muri, qui duobus brachiis Pirseum 
Athenis juugit." Jjv'tus, hb. xxxv. ap. Meurs. Pir.ut suprh. 
(4) " Jnde ubi Piraei capient me littora portus, 
Scaudam ego Theseae Ltachia longa vise." 
Propertius, fib. Hi. Eleg.%0. ap.Meurs. ut supra. 
(o) Afeursii Piraeus, passim. Sic Suidas, Stephanas, Jlesychius, 
&c. &c. 
(6) T T TIugaTx, itttia^nrtt a-jTsg, *J -ija rr,t 'Axryf xtiftim, 
turns $o,<rii ntft.a.fftweu. Strabon. Geog. lib. i. p. 86. Oxon. 1807. 
(7) Trajectum ad Mosam, Maestricbt in Brabant; Trajectum ad 
Rhenum, Utrecht ; Trajectum ad Mcenum, Francfort upon the Moene ; 
Trajectum ad Oderam, Francfort upon the Oder. 
(8) H> irjoTja o HiioKttv; ttiras' tfav KO.I rwi(&ai it).ii<Q i, itre TW Jiawsaon. 
v Primitus iasula erat Piraeus : unde et nomen accepit, a Irajtctu." 
Suidas. 
