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ANCIENT ATHENS.
called the Pylae Itonise,1 where was the monument of the Amazon, keep-
ing along outside the wall. Eecent discoveries have confirmed the
existence of a gate at this spot.2
The gate at which Socrates had gone out when he met with Cleinias
must have been near the south-eastern extremity of the peribolos of the
Olynipium, which is the only place where he could have seen Cleinias
running towards Callirrhoe, and suits the description of his turning back
with him and keeping along under the city wall till they arrived at the
Itonian Gate. It suits also with the circumstance of Socrates being on
his road to Cynosarges, which, from a gate near the Olympium, would
have lain on his left hand a little higher up the stream. For Pausanias,
when describing this quarter, and also proceeding up the river, or to
his left, enumerates the objects after the Olympium in the following
order : the temple of Apollo, Aphrodite in the Gardens, Cynosarges, the
Lyceium, Artemis Agrotera, and then the Stadium. We have described
more particularly the site of Cynosarges in another part of this work when
accompanying the route of Pausanias, and therefore it may suffice to say
here that it probably stood nearly opposite the Stadium, but a little to
the west of it. Cynosarges lay in the district, or deme, called Diomeia,
after its eponymous hero Diomus, a son of Collytus. Diomus was sacri-
ficing here to Heracles when a white dog ran off with part of the victim,
whence the name of the place.3 Diomeia probably extended a good
way beyond the river outside the walls, but lay not at all within it.
The gate at which Socrates went out seems to have been the Dio-
meian Gate, which is mentioned by Hesychius.4 But this proves
nothing as to Diomeia being a city deme, as the gates were often named
1 rrjv irapa to Tfix»s yciptv reus 'lrwviais,
irhr)<Ttov yap a/cet tg>v 7ri>Xeov, npos ttj
'A/xaCoviSi 0-1-17X17.—p. 365 (iii. iii. 508,
Bekk.). But the text seems lo be wrongly
punctuated, and perhaps we should read :
rr)v jrapu to re'txos fifiiv, rais 'Ircofuus
tt\t]0-lov yap oiicet Tav irvhiov—"we took
the road along the wall, for he lived near
the Itonian Gate:" literally, "near the
Itonian of the gates." We find a similar
idiom in Thucydides : roiis SXkovs p-tra
roil KXeapi'Sa Ka6l<mt) eVt Tas Opaxlas
KaKovpevas T&v nvXuv.—V. 10.
2 Philologus, xxv. p. 337.
3 Hesych. Suid. Stephan. Byz. in KwoV-
apy€s.
prjnoTe ovv dvri tov, Aioprjo-t 7njXats,
Arjptao~lv tiirev, Ota Tt]v eyyvrrjTa twv vvopa."
Tav;—Hesych. in Ar/pido-i rrvhais.
ANCIENT ATHENS.
called the Pylae Itonise,1 where was the monument of the Amazon, keep-
ing along outside the wall. Eecent discoveries have confirmed the
existence of a gate at this spot.2
The gate at which Socrates had gone out when he met with Cleinias
must have been near the south-eastern extremity of the peribolos of the
Olynipium, which is the only place where he could have seen Cleinias
running towards Callirrhoe, and suits the description of his turning back
with him and keeping along under the city wall till they arrived at the
Itonian Gate. It suits also with the circumstance of Socrates being on
his road to Cynosarges, which, from a gate near the Olympium, would
have lain on his left hand a little higher up the stream. For Pausanias,
when describing this quarter, and also proceeding up the river, or to
his left, enumerates the objects after the Olympium in the following
order : the temple of Apollo, Aphrodite in the Gardens, Cynosarges, the
Lyceium, Artemis Agrotera, and then the Stadium. We have described
more particularly the site of Cynosarges in another part of this work when
accompanying the route of Pausanias, and therefore it may suffice to say
here that it probably stood nearly opposite the Stadium, but a little to
the west of it. Cynosarges lay in the district, or deme, called Diomeia,
after its eponymous hero Diomus, a son of Collytus. Diomus was sacri-
ficing here to Heracles when a white dog ran off with part of the victim,
whence the name of the place.3 Diomeia probably extended a good
way beyond the river outside the walls, but lay not at all within it.
The gate at which Socrates went out seems to have been the Dio-
meian Gate, which is mentioned by Hesychius.4 But this proves
nothing as to Diomeia being a city deme, as the gates were often named
1 rrjv irapa to Tfix»s yciptv reus 'lrwviais,
irhr)<Ttov yap a/cet tg>v 7ri>Xeov, npos ttj
'A/xaCoviSi 0-1-17X17.—p. 365 (iii. iii. 508,
Bekk.). But the text seems lo be wrongly
punctuated, and perhaps we should read :
rr)v jrapu to re'txos fifiiv, rais 'Ircofuus
tt\t]0-lov yap oiicet Tav irvhiov—"we took
the road along the wall, for he lived near
the Itonian Gate:" literally, "near the
Itonian of the gates." We find a similar
idiom in Thucydides : roiis SXkovs p-tra
roil KXeapi'Sa Ka6l<mt) eVt Tas Opaxlas
KaKovpevas T&v nvXuv.—V. 10.
2 Philologus, xxv. p. 337.
3 Hesych. Suid. Stephan. Byz. in KwoV-
apy€s.
prjnoTe ovv dvri tov, Aioprjo-t 7njXats,
Arjptao~lv tiirev, Ota Tt]v eyyvrrjTa twv vvopa."
Tav;—Hesych. in Ar/pido-i rrvhais.