THE PIRAEUS. 
CHAP. 
VII. 
v v 
Tomb of 
Themisto- 
c/es. 
Travellers have pretended to recognise the tomb 
of Themistocles. A square stone resting on a 
simple base, and destitute of any ornament, was 
all that denoted the place of his interment. It 
was near to the principal harbour 1 , of course 
that of Pir&eus a , containing three smaller ports, 
as docks 9 : for the port of Phalerum, within the 
road of that name, was very small 4 . Its situa- 
tion seems to be so clearly designated by a 
passage in Plutarch y at the end of his life of 
(1) KO.I ; <ru [ti-yifrifi ^iftim ru$s &tftifrmt.iovs- Pausan. Altic. p. 3. 
Lips. 1696. 
(2) " Piraeeus, qui et ipse, magnitudine, ac commoditate, primus." 
Meurs. Pir. ap. Gronov. Thesaur. Gr. torn. V. p. 1931. L. Eat. 1699. 
(3) It contained three a^ftet, or docks; the first called Kv^f, from 
a hero of that name ; the second 'Atp^tSifiav, from 'AffoSirn, or Penus, 
who had these two temples; the third Zi, from bread corn, whrch 
was called by the Grecians friei. ( Potter's Arch. vol. I. p. 43. Land. 
1751.) Scylax mentions its three ports : 'oSk nii^aiius A/^tmt i%u -rgi/y. 
(Scylucis Caryandensis Periplus, p. 47. L,. Bat. 1697. 
" On the twenty-fourth of June we anchored in the convenient 
little harbour of the PJREEUS ; where the chief objects that call for 
one's attention are, the remains of the solid fortifications of Themi- 
tlocles ; the remains of the moles forming the smaller ports within the 
PIR/EEUS ; two monuments on the sea-shore ; and palpable vestiges of 
the long walls which connected the harbour with Athens, a distance 
of about four miles and a half." Colonel Squire's MS. Correspondence. 
(4) " Cum Phalero portu, neque magno, neque lono, Athenienses 
uterentur, hujus cotisilio triplex Pirseei portus constitutus est." 
Cornelius Nej)os in Thcmistocle, ap. Gronov. Thesaur. Gr. torn. V. />.1934. 
L.Bat. 1699. 
