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ANCIENT ATHENS.
thing from it, or from any other gymnasium, should he capitally
punished.1
Cynosarges heing just outside one of the gates—and as we have
before observed (p. 106), probably the Diomeian Gate, from the legend
respecting the foundation of the temple—was used as a place of sepul-
ture, or rather, it would seem, the road which led to it. Thus we learn
from the ' Lives of the Ten Orators,'2 that Isocrates and his relatives
were buried near it, on a rising ground on the left hand. On these
tombs were once six trapezse or tables, intended apparently for inscrip-
tions or painted portraits ; but they had perished before the time of the
writer of the Lives. On the tomb of Isocrates himself, was a colossal
ram of 30 cubits, having on it a siren of 7 cubits, typical of his
eloquence. Near it was a trapeza, having a picture of certain poets,
and of the teachers of Isocrates; among whom was Gorgias surveying
an astrological sphere, and Isocrates standing by him. But these also
had perished, and were probably destroyed by Philip V. of Macedon,
when he committed such wanton havoc in the Athenian suburbs,3 and
destroyed not only the buildings and groves but even the tombs. His
ravages appear to have been made principally on this eastern side of the
city, where indeed he had pitched his camp, as Livy specifies more par-
ticularly Cynosarges and the Lyceium. Herodotus alludes to a tomb
of Anchimolius here, in a passage from which we also learn that Cynos-
arges was in the deme of Alopecse.4 That deme must have extended
at least a mile or two from the city ; for iEschines speaks of a farm in
it 11 or 12 stadia from the walls.5 Socrates belonged to the deme
1 Demosth. c. Timocr. p. 736, Keiske;
cf. Aristot. Probl. xxix. 14.
2 torn. ix. p. 333 sq. Beiske.
3 " Cynosarges et Lyceum et qnidquid
sancti amcenive circa urbeni erat, incensum
est, dirutaque non tecta solum sed etiam
sepulcra."—Liv. xxxi. 24.
4 Kai'A-y^i/toXiou €i<rt Ta$a\ rfjs 'AmKtjs
'AXcairficp<rt, tiyxov tov 'Hpa/cXi/iou tov iv
Kvpotrdpyfi.—V. 63.
4 to 6" 'AXanreKpo-j xvp'iov, ° 5" mtofcv
tov T€lx<yvs hhcKa r) SaSeKU (rrd&ta.—adv.
Timarch. p. 119. Eeiske takes ^Eschines
to mean from the walled town or fortress
of Alopecae, not from the city wall. But
we have seen that Cynosarges was_ close to
the gate. Leake (vol. ii. p. 31) erroneously
places the deme a mile and a half from the
city walls, from misinterpreting this ptis-
sage of .<Eschines.
ANCIENT ATHENS.
thing from it, or from any other gymnasium, should he capitally
punished.1
Cynosarges heing just outside one of the gates—and as we have
before observed (p. 106), probably the Diomeian Gate, from the legend
respecting the foundation of the temple—was used as a place of sepul-
ture, or rather, it would seem, the road which led to it. Thus we learn
from the ' Lives of the Ten Orators,'2 that Isocrates and his relatives
were buried near it, on a rising ground on the left hand. On these
tombs were once six trapezse or tables, intended apparently for inscrip-
tions or painted portraits ; but they had perished before the time of the
writer of the Lives. On the tomb of Isocrates himself, was a colossal
ram of 30 cubits, having on it a siren of 7 cubits, typical of his
eloquence. Near it was a trapeza, having a picture of certain poets,
and of the teachers of Isocrates; among whom was Gorgias surveying
an astrological sphere, and Isocrates standing by him. But these also
had perished, and were probably destroyed by Philip V. of Macedon,
when he committed such wanton havoc in the Athenian suburbs,3 and
destroyed not only the buildings and groves but even the tombs. His
ravages appear to have been made principally on this eastern side of the
city, where indeed he had pitched his camp, as Livy specifies more par-
ticularly Cynosarges and the Lyceium. Herodotus alludes to a tomb
of Anchimolius here, in a passage from which we also learn that Cynos-
arges was in the deme of Alopecse.4 That deme must have extended
at least a mile or two from the city ; for iEschines speaks of a farm in
it 11 or 12 stadia from the walls.5 Socrates belonged to the deme
1 Demosth. c. Timocr. p. 736, Keiske;
cf. Aristot. Probl. xxix. 14.
2 torn. ix. p. 333 sq. Beiske.
3 " Cynosarges et Lyceum et qnidquid
sancti amcenive circa urbeni erat, incensum
est, dirutaque non tecta solum sed etiam
sepulcra."—Liv. xxxi. 24.
4 Kai'A-y^i/toXiou €i<rt Ta$a\ rfjs 'AmKtjs
'AXcairficp<rt, tiyxov tov 'Hpa/cXi/iou tov iv
Kvpotrdpyfi.—V. 63.
4 to 6" 'AXanreKpo-j xvp'iov, ° 5" mtofcv
tov T€lx<yvs hhcKa r) SaSeKU (rrd&ta.—adv.
Timarch. p. 119. Eeiske takes ^Eschines
to mean from the walled town or fortress
of Alopecae, not from the city wall. But
we have seen that Cynosarges was_ close to
the gate. Leake (vol. ii. p. 31) erroneously
places the deme a mile and a half from the
city walls, from misinterpreting this ptis-
sage of .<Eschines.