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OP THE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS OF THE CITY. 67
just referred to another instance in the agora at
Elis, in which was the tomb of Achilles, and that
of Oxylus. It was probably in the agora that the
statues of Lysander, Eteonicus, Pharax, and other
Lacedaemonian commanders, were erected; and on
the privileges of the city being usurped by Agesilaus,
and the Ephesians leaguing themselves with the
Athenians, that they erected statues to Conon and
Timotheus.1
The laws of the Ionians appear to have been
exposed publicly in the Agora, in order that
every one might see them: an excavation may
possibly one day bring these to light. The Agora
appears also from a passage in Xenophon,3 (" our
peaceable walks in the Agora,") to have served
as a place of public promenade, like the Piazza
Ducale at Venice; and it is recorded that
Cleopatra being one day carried about the Agora
of Ephesus in a litter, Antony, who was pre-
siding in one of the courts, (the curias,) listening
to the pleading of a celebrated orator, no sooner
saw her, than, leaping from his throne, he ran
to attend her: so forgetful was he of duty when
enticed by pleasure. This curia3 may possibly
have occupied the vacant piece of ground con-
tiguous to the gymnasium of the theatre, a situa-
1 Paus. vi. 3. 2 Xen. Hell. ii. 4.
3 Ephesus had a senate composed of conscript fathers, with
whom the Epicletes assembled, and administered all the affairs.—
(Strabo, p. 640.)
just referred to another instance in the agora at
Elis, in which was the tomb of Achilles, and that
of Oxylus. It was probably in the agora that the
statues of Lysander, Eteonicus, Pharax, and other
Lacedaemonian commanders, were erected; and on
the privileges of the city being usurped by Agesilaus,
and the Ephesians leaguing themselves with the
Athenians, that they erected statues to Conon and
Timotheus.1
The laws of the Ionians appear to have been
exposed publicly in the Agora, in order that
every one might see them: an excavation may
possibly one day bring these to light. The Agora
appears also from a passage in Xenophon,3 (" our
peaceable walks in the Agora,") to have served
as a place of public promenade, like the Piazza
Ducale at Venice; and it is recorded that
Cleopatra being one day carried about the Agora
of Ephesus in a litter, Antony, who was pre-
siding in one of the courts, (the curias,) listening
to the pleading of a celebrated orator, no sooner
saw her, than, leaping from his throne, he ran
to attend her: so forgetful was he of duty when
enticed by pleasure. This curia3 may possibly
have occupied the vacant piece of ground con-
tiguous to the gymnasium of the theatre, a situa-
1 Paus. vi. 3. 2 Xen. Hell. ii. 4.
3 Ephesus had a senate composed of conscript fathers, with
whom the Epicletes assembled, and administered all the affairs.—
(Strabo, p. 640.)