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CYDATHENJEUM—LIMN--V—SCAM1WNIDJE.
(Mvp^/ccx; aTpaTTos), son of Melanippus, who, as we have seen, had a
heroum in Melite', which must in part have adjoined the Museium.1
Aristophanes seems facetiously to allude to it as the ' Ant's Path,' an
interpretation which it would literally admit.2 It seems at all events
pretty certain that the Scambonidae were a city deme of the tribe
Leontis. It is mentioned by Aristophanes and Pausanias, and by Plu-
tarch, as the deme of Alcibiades,3 but there is nothing in these passages
to show its situation.
There must doubtless have been a gate in the valley under the
eastern side of the Museium, about two hundred and fifty yards south
of the present Military Hospital, where there are evident traces of the
ancient wall; and there is tolerably satisfactory proof that this must have
been the Itonian Gate. The existence of a gate at this spot may be in-
ferred not only from the nature of the ground but also from the account of
Pausanias, who, when describing his arrival at Athens from Phalerum
mentions having seen here the monument of Antiope. Now, as Phalerum
lay more to the east than Peirseeus, a gate leading to it may be con-
veniently sought in this quarter; and it appears from a passage before
cited from Plutarch (supra, p. 64) that a monument either to Antiope
or Hippolyta, he was uncertain which, lay here, near the temple of the
Olympian Gasa.4 The name of the gate may be inferred from a passage
in the dialogue entitled ' Axiochus,' sometimes ascribed to Plato.
Socrates is there described as having gone out at a gate leading to
Cynosarges5—therefore to the north-east of the one we are considering—
and to have got to the Ilissus, when he sees Cleinias and others running
towards Callirrhoe, which must have been on his right hand. They all
turn back in order to visit Cleinias' father, who lived near the gate
1 Hesych.andPhot.invoc. ThisMyrmex,
being the grandson of Theseus, must have
been different from the father of Melite.
2 Thesmoph. 100.
3 Aristoph. Vesp. 81; Pausan. i. 38, 2 ;
Plut. Ale. 22. Leake (vol. i. p. 634) and
Sauppe (De Demis, p. 16) place Scani-
bonidas within the city.
4 rijv frrrjXrjv ttjv napa to rrjs Frjs rrjs
'OXvprrias Upov.—Thes. 27. The site of
this temple will be shown in the descrip-
tion of the city by Pausanias.
5 e£iuvri put es Kvvoo-apyes Kai yevop.€vo>
fioi Kara top 'IAiotow, x.r.A.—Axiochus,
init.
(Mvp^/ccx; aTpaTTos), son of Melanippus, who, as we have seen, had a
heroum in Melite', which must in part have adjoined the Museium.1
Aristophanes seems facetiously to allude to it as the ' Ant's Path,' an
interpretation which it would literally admit.2 It seems at all events
pretty certain that the Scambonidae were a city deme of the tribe
Leontis. It is mentioned by Aristophanes and Pausanias, and by Plu-
tarch, as the deme of Alcibiades,3 but there is nothing in these passages
to show its situation.
There must doubtless have been a gate in the valley under the
eastern side of the Museium, about two hundred and fifty yards south
of the present Military Hospital, where there are evident traces of the
ancient wall; and there is tolerably satisfactory proof that this must have
been the Itonian Gate. The existence of a gate at this spot may be in-
ferred not only from the nature of the ground but also from the account of
Pausanias, who, when describing his arrival at Athens from Phalerum
mentions having seen here the monument of Antiope. Now, as Phalerum
lay more to the east than Peirseeus, a gate leading to it may be con-
veniently sought in this quarter; and it appears from a passage before
cited from Plutarch (supra, p. 64) that a monument either to Antiope
or Hippolyta, he was uncertain which, lay here, near the temple of the
Olympian Gasa.4 The name of the gate may be inferred from a passage
in the dialogue entitled ' Axiochus,' sometimes ascribed to Plato.
Socrates is there described as having gone out at a gate leading to
Cynosarges5—therefore to the north-east of the one we are considering—
and to have got to the Ilissus, when he sees Cleinias and others running
towards Callirrhoe, which must have been on his right hand. They all
turn back in order to visit Cleinias' father, who lived near the gate
1 Hesych.andPhot.invoc. ThisMyrmex,
being the grandson of Theseus, must have
been different from the father of Melite.
2 Thesmoph. 100.
3 Aristoph. Vesp. 81; Pausan. i. 38, 2 ;
Plut. Ale. 22. Leake (vol. i. p. 634) and
Sauppe (De Demis, p. 16) place Scani-
bonidas within the city.
4 rijv frrrjXrjv ttjv napa to rrjs Frjs rrjs
'OXvprrias Upov.—Thes. 27. The site of
this temple will be shown in the descrip-
tion of the city by Pausanias.
5 e£iuvri put es Kvvoo-apyes Kai yevop.€vo>
fioi Kara top 'IAiotow, x.r.A.—Axiochus,
init.