50 MARATHON TO THEBES. 
river, there were other towns, now occupied 
by Albanian villages'. Psaphis was of this 
number, and perhaps CEnoa; although it be 
exceedingly difficult to fix the position of the 
latter town, which fVheler has stationed upon 
the top of Fames ^, and Chandler in the Plain of 
Marathon^ . The circumstance of its being one 
of the four cities of Tetrapolis* is certainly strong 
for its position in the Marathonian district; and 
we had reason to think that the remains of it 
may possibly exist in the Plain of Marathon, as 
we have before shewn*. 
(1) This may be owing to the circumstance mentioned by Wheler of his 
descent from Fames to Marcojmli, when "it was dark;" {Ibid.) and of 
his early departure thence in the morning, perhaps before it was light, 
according to the usual mode of travelling in Greece. 
(2) Journey into Greece, p. 454. 
(3) Travels in Greece, p. 162. 
(4) Wheler has attempted to prove, from Stejfkanus Byzantinus (See 
Journ. into Greece, p. 455.), that Tetrapolis was itself a city; but the 
words of Strabo are clear and decisive as to the import of that appellation, 
which was a district of Attica, containing the four cities of (Enoa, Mara- 
thon, Probalinthus, and Tricorythus, founded by Xuthus, who married a 
daughter of iJreci/iCMS king of ^i/jews. Oi Xuthus it is said by Sfrabo, 
axife T«v TtTfafroXfv TJjf 'ArriK>i;, Oivoiiv, yia^aimx, Xl^olHXivSov, xa) Tpixo- 
tvSov, Strabon. Geog. lib.vVu. 2>.555. ed. Oxoii. M.r. Hobhousc (Travels, 
p. 444. Land. 1813.) mentions a village called (Enoe, to the north of the 
.Asopus. 
(5) It is plain, from a passage in Thucydides, that CEnoa was a frontier 
citadel, upon the confines of Attica and Bwolia : the Alhcnians were wont 
to garrison it in troublesome times. 'H yap Otvori oZixa. \t fcJoeiois t?? 
'Arrixtis xai Boiurias, IriTtip^itrro, xai civrZ (p^ov^ica oi ^A6»'ja7(n l^^uyro, osraTS 
ffoXi/Aos xuroiXalioi. T/iucydid. lib. ii. ca}i, 18. p. 95. ed. Hudsoni. Oxon. 
1696. 
