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PORT KENCHREIAI.
only to a few of the present inhabitants of Corinth, and from which
they had extracted vases of the highest antiquity, some of which I
purchased, but could not prevail upon them to inform me where
they had been found.
Pausanias was, as usual, my only guide; in his way to the Port
he only mentions a temple of Diana.1 We passed by some Roman
sepulchres and ruins of no import, and in forty minutes from Corinth
went a short distance from the village called Hexamilia, near which
are some ancient stone quarries of considerable extent, and in their
vicinity are the foundations of fine walls that probably belonged to
the temple of Diana. We crossed a stream, and observed some
blocks of stone on its bank, perhaps the remains of a bridge. The
ruins of a modern fort are seen on a hill to the right. These hills are
the boundaries of the isthmus.
In an hour and three quarters from Corinth, we arrived at the
seaside, and in another quarter of an hour at the baths of Helen,
which time corresponds nearly with the seventy stadia that Strabo3
gives as the distance between Corinth and Kenchreiai. The entrance
of the port is between two low capes, on one of which is a magazine,
and a modern tower in ruins, with some ancient remains ; other
traces are observed on the opposite cape. At the entrance of the
port is an insular rock.
It is here necessary to cite the words of Pausanias, in order to
show that the original readings should be retained, instead of the
corrections of Kuhnius. Pausanias says, Ev h Kev^etutg A<Pgo$flt)s
re etrri vuog xat ccyot.'K^a, Xtt)ou' f/,{]cc ds ccvlo eiri tco gtvpout ru oia tjjj OaXua-crrjg
Tloiriitiuvog "jgtkxovr zccjcc li to (Izpov Kipccg %v Xipevog Ao-y^Tiov zai ItricSog upa
"At Kenchreiai there is a temple of Venus and a marble statue; be-
yond which, in the current of the sea, there is a bronze Neptune;
and on the other extremity of the port are the temples of iEscula-
pius and Isis/'
Kuhnius has substituted the word fyvypufli for fsufutlt, and xepuc
B. 2. c. 2. taui.
4 B. 8. p. 380.
PORT KENCHREIAI.
only to a few of the present inhabitants of Corinth, and from which
they had extracted vases of the highest antiquity, some of which I
purchased, but could not prevail upon them to inform me where
they had been found.
Pausanias was, as usual, my only guide; in his way to the Port
he only mentions a temple of Diana.1 We passed by some Roman
sepulchres and ruins of no import, and in forty minutes from Corinth
went a short distance from the village called Hexamilia, near which
are some ancient stone quarries of considerable extent, and in their
vicinity are the foundations of fine walls that probably belonged to
the temple of Diana. We crossed a stream, and observed some
blocks of stone on its bank, perhaps the remains of a bridge. The
ruins of a modern fort are seen on a hill to the right. These hills are
the boundaries of the isthmus.
In an hour and three quarters from Corinth, we arrived at the
seaside, and in another quarter of an hour at the baths of Helen,
which time corresponds nearly with the seventy stadia that Strabo3
gives as the distance between Corinth and Kenchreiai. The entrance
of the port is between two low capes, on one of which is a magazine,
and a modern tower in ruins, with some ancient remains ; other
traces are observed on the opposite cape. At the entrance of the
port is an insular rock.
It is here necessary to cite the words of Pausanias, in order to
show that the original readings should be retained, instead of the
corrections of Kuhnius. Pausanias says, Ev h Kev^etutg A<Pgo$flt)s
re etrri vuog xat ccyot.'K^a, Xtt)ou' f/,{]cc ds ccvlo eiri tco gtvpout ru oia tjjj OaXua-crrjg
Tloiriitiuvog "jgtkxovr zccjcc li to (Izpov Kipccg %v Xipevog Ao-y^Tiov zai ItricSog upa
"At Kenchreiai there is a temple of Venus and a marble statue; be-
yond which, in the current of the sea, there is a bronze Neptune;
and on the other extremity of the port are the temples of iEscula-
pius and Isis/'
Kuhnius has substituted the word fyvypufli for fsufutlt, and xepuc
B. 2. c. 2. taui.
4 B. 8. p. 380.