82 THEBES. 
CHAP, for so many ages " illustrious only in its misfor- 
, tunes '," will again revive, becoming conspicuous 
for the importance of its contributions to History 
and to the Fine Arts. Although described by 
antient writers as retaining no other vestige than 
its name of what it once had been, yet we find 
Antient that SO latc as the second century, its gates 
S2L!^ were not only entire, but Pausanias was enabled 
to collect their several appellations". The 
(1) " Non virtutibus sed cladibus insignes fuere." Justin. 
(2) The Seven Gates of Thebes, according to Nonnus, {lib. V.Dionys.) 
were erected according to the number and order of the seven planets. 
Pausanias has thus preserved their names : {vid. Pausan. Bceotica^ 
cap.b. p.'i^J. edit. Kuhnii.) 
1. The Gates of ^/ec/j-cf. 
II. The Proetian, or Gates of Pratus. 
III. The Ne'itan, or Gates of Ne'is: so called, either from AVVe, the 
name of a string belonging to the l^re, uhich Ainphion 
invented before this gate ; or from iWiV, the nephew of 
Atnphion. 
IV. Tiie CVeM«aw Gates; so called, in all jirobabiliiy, from their 
fountain Difce; for these gates are called Dircaan by 
Statins. Pausanias does not say that these gates received 
their appellation from their/oMW/aiw.- hut Kuhnius attributes 
it to the stream oi- fountain of Dace; and he has this curious 
emendatory note upim the words (sruAaj 11 Koyivala;) : "Locum 
esse in mendo nemo non videt quem ex coDJecturS. sic 
restituerem : trwXa; ras fim K^n^ala.; Tat Ss ''T-^i(r-x; i-r) Xiycu 
TCiuSi ovofid^oviri. "X^o; f/.iv Kotivalai; Ai^xti; Kor,v}i, v^o{ 6% Ta.7: 
't^tffrai; Atet it^ov ivixXijiriii Ivrii 'T-^lffrou. K^rifXiot;, vel Ut 
Jpollod. lib.iii. scribit, K»>!»/Saf, a rivo qui Dirce dicebatur 
Bomen trahere dubium non est : nam et Statius, lib. viii. 
Thebaid. has portas vocat culmina Dirccea. Dabocjus versus 
integros, quia ad rem faciunt: 
" Ogygiis 
