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50 ANCIENT EPIIESUS.
hence we find in Megara,1 and in Damascus,3 there
was a street in either city which, happening to be
straight, was expressly called " the straight street."
panoumus The parts of the city which require to be first
city poet, treated of, and which demand the greatest atten-
tion, are the ancient ports. Although the ancient
historians are quite clear with regard to a double
port,3 the sacred and the civic, no modern traveller
has attempted to discriminate between the two.
The present marsh is acknowledged by every one
as occupying the site of the (City) Port. M.
Laborde4 shows in both his views of Ephesus,
(that taken from the Theatre and the panoramic
one from the summit of Ooressus,) rows of columns
along the north side of the marsh, and a jetty
running out from it, also lined with columns.
M. le Brun5 also notices these columns. He says,
" Opposite is a kind of marsh full of little brooks.
It is thought to have been formerly a lake. One
sees also in this place a number of fragments and
remains of columns, but much smaller and more
simple than the others." These circumstances, thus
established, are sufficient to show that this marsh
was formerly the city port, and that it was laid
out in a regular plan, and embellished with porticos
1 Pans. i. 44. 2 Acts, ix. 11.
3 See Plut. in Lysand. 3, quoted in page 52 ; Diod. Sic. xiii.
71, quoted in Appendix No. I. 406 B.C.; and Philost. Vit. Soph.
ii. 23.
4 Voyage en Orient. 5 Voyage au Levant, pp. 32-3.
hence we find in Megara,1 and in Damascus,3 there
was a street in either city which, happening to be
straight, was expressly called " the straight street."
panoumus The parts of the city which require to be first
city poet, treated of, and which demand the greatest atten-
tion, are the ancient ports. Although the ancient
historians are quite clear with regard to a double
port,3 the sacred and the civic, no modern traveller
has attempted to discriminate between the two.
The present marsh is acknowledged by every one
as occupying the site of the (City) Port. M.
Laborde4 shows in both his views of Ephesus,
(that taken from the Theatre and the panoramic
one from the summit of Ooressus,) rows of columns
along the north side of the marsh, and a jetty
running out from it, also lined with columns.
M. le Brun5 also notices these columns. He says,
" Opposite is a kind of marsh full of little brooks.
It is thought to have been formerly a lake. One
sees also in this place a number of fragments and
remains of columns, but much smaller and more
simple than the others." These circumstances, thus
established, are sufficient to show that this marsh
was formerly the city port, and that it was laid
out in a regular plan, and embellished with porticos
1 Pans. i. 44. 2 Acts, ix. 11.
3 See Plut. in Lysand. 3, quoted in page 52 ; Diod. Sic. xiii.
71, quoted in Appendix No. I. 406 B.C.; and Philost. Vit. Soph.
ii. 23.
4 Voyage en Orient. 5 Voyage au Levant, pp. 32-3.