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Falkener, Edward
Ephesus and the temple of Diana — London, 1862

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OF THE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS OF THE CITY. 61

K E N K P I O C,1 these two combined,2 the ocean,3
not to mention cornucopias and figures of Fortune,
all denoting its extended commerce.

This port is connected with the insult offered
to Stratonice, who not giving to Ctesicles the
honorable reception to which he considered himself
entitled, was painted by him romping with a fisher-
man, for whom, according to common report, she
had conceived an ardent affection. After exhibiting
this picture in the harbour at Ephesus, he at once
set sail and escaped; the queen, however, would
not allow of its removal, the likeness of the two
figures being so admirably expressed.1

The ancients distinguished between the public agora
square occupied by the houses of the magistrates,
and appropriated for the education of youth, and
those places in which provisions and merchan-
dise were sold. The former were called civilia,
the latter venalia. The setting apart large open
spaces for the sale of merchandise, and the
transaction of public business, originated with the
Greeks, and there is an anecdote told us by
Herodotus,5 which shows how opposed this custom
was to the ideas of the Persians.6 The Lacedasmo-

1 Mionnet, Suppl. vi. 396, 416.

2 Id. Suppl. vi. 497 ; Morel, Spec. Univ. Rei Num. Ant. x. 4.

3 Id. Suppl. vi. 477.

4 Plin. II. K xxxv. 40. 5 Herod, i. 152-3.

0 The Egyptians, however, possessed this feature of an ancient
city.—(Herod, iii. 139.)

civii.is.


 
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