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ANCIENT ATHENS.
The number of ship-sheds (vena-oucoi) in the three harbours is given
at 372; namely, in Munychia, 82; Zea, 196; Cantharus, 94. This
pretty nearly agrees with the account of Strabo, who says that the
Athenian ports had room for 400 ships.1 The numbers, too, suit the
size of the respective harbours; for the length of shore at Zea is about
twice as much as that of either of the other two. Phalerum had pro-
bably ceased to be used as a station for ships of war after the destruc-
tion of the Phaleric Wall; but that it served at all events as a commercial
port down to a very late period appears from the description of it given
by Pausanias.
The circuit of the wall at Peiraeeus, including Munychia, is given
by Thucydides at 60 stades ;2 and such would be about the measure of a
line, on the lesser scale, carried round the peninsula from a point a little
to the westward of Eetioneia. Then the Long Walls measuring each
40 stades, and the ring wall of the city 43 (without the unguarded
part), the whole circumference of the fortification, regarded as one,
would, according to Thucydides, be 43-f-40-|-60-{-40 = 183 stades. Dion
Chrysostom sets it down at 200 in his sixth oration; but in his twenty-
fifth he calls the Peiraic wall 90 stades,3 thus exceeding by 30 stades the
measure given by Thucydides. His former computation was perhaps
founded on the account of that historian as supplemented by his scho-
liast, as we have shown, absurdly; in the latter he is evidently talking
at random. Assuming that by 43 stades Thucydides meant only the
guarded part of the wall, and allowing 7 stades for the unguarded
portion, which is the largest probable number, then we arrive at a total
circumference of 190 stades. And we may observe from the first
1 p. 395. In the scholium on the Pax
just cited, it is said that there were sixty
vewpia in Cantharus. Nimpiov seems to
have had a more extended sense than
veoxroiKos. Thus the Ac£eis 'P-qropiKal.
Nfwo-oiKoi' Karayayia «V« Tijs BiiKaTTTjs
<OKobopr)fj.cva els VTrodo)(r)v tu>v vewv, ore
fir) 6a\tiTTevotfv' Tti veaypta de 7/ roiv o\cov
■ntptPoXi].—Bekk. An. Gra-c. p. 282. But
even thus we cannot reconcile the numbers.
2 lib. ii. 13.
Kairoi &LaKO<rl<ov orabiav elvat tt)v ttc-
piperpov rav 'Adqviov, tov Ilcipaias avvn-
uepevov Kai t<ov hia pe'uov rei^cov irpos tov
wepijioXov tov nortos" oiKelo-dai yap oil
ird\ai Kal Tavra avpiravra.—De Tyrannide,
p. 109, Beiske (t. i. p. 96, Teubner). *m
vorepov tov Hapaui Tfi^iVat irkeiovtav */
ivfvtjKovTa OTabiaiv.—De Geuio, p. 521,
liciske (i. 312, Teubner).
ANCIENT ATHENS.
The number of ship-sheds (vena-oucoi) in the three harbours is given
at 372; namely, in Munychia, 82; Zea, 196; Cantharus, 94. This
pretty nearly agrees with the account of Strabo, who says that the
Athenian ports had room for 400 ships.1 The numbers, too, suit the
size of the respective harbours; for the length of shore at Zea is about
twice as much as that of either of the other two. Phalerum had pro-
bably ceased to be used as a station for ships of war after the destruc-
tion of the Phaleric Wall; but that it served at all events as a commercial
port down to a very late period appears from the description of it given
by Pausanias.
The circuit of the wall at Peiraeeus, including Munychia, is given
by Thucydides at 60 stades ;2 and such would be about the measure of a
line, on the lesser scale, carried round the peninsula from a point a little
to the westward of Eetioneia. Then the Long Walls measuring each
40 stades, and the ring wall of the city 43 (without the unguarded
part), the whole circumference of the fortification, regarded as one,
would, according to Thucydides, be 43-f-40-|-60-{-40 = 183 stades. Dion
Chrysostom sets it down at 200 in his sixth oration; but in his twenty-
fifth he calls the Peiraic wall 90 stades,3 thus exceeding by 30 stades the
measure given by Thucydides. His former computation was perhaps
founded on the account of that historian as supplemented by his scho-
liast, as we have shown, absurdly; in the latter he is evidently talking
at random. Assuming that by 43 stades Thucydides meant only the
guarded part of the wall, and allowing 7 stades for the unguarded
portion, which is the largest probable number, then we arrive at a total
circumference of 190 stades. And we may observe from the first
1 p. 395. In the scholium on the Pax
just cited, it is said that there were sixty
vewpia in Cantharus. Nimpiov seems to
have had a more extended sense than
veoxroiKos. Thus the Ac£eis 'P-qropiKal.
Nfwo-oiKoi' Karayayia «V« Tijs BiiKaTTTjs
<OKobopr)fj.cva els VTrodo)(r)v tu>v vewv, ore
fir) 6a\tiTTevotfv' Tti veaypta de 7/ roiv o\cov
■ntptPoXi].—Bekk. An. Gra-c. p. 282. But
even thus we cannot reconcile the numbers.
2 lib. ii. 13.
Kairoi &LaKO<rl<ov orabiav elvat tt)v ttc-
piperpov rav 'Adqviov, tov Ilcipaias avvn-
uepevov Kai t<ov hia pe'uov rei^cov irpos tov
wepijioXov tov nortos" oiKelo-dai yap oil
ird\ai Kal Tavra avpiravra.—De Tyrannide,
p. 109, Beiske (t. i. p. 96, Teubner). *m
vorepov tov Hapaui Tfi^iVat irkeiovtav */
ivfvtjKovTa OTabiaiv.—De Geuio, p. 521,
liciske (i. 312, Teubner).