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114 ANCIENT EPHBSUS.
by his planting all lands which he possessed, with
fruit-trees and shady groves ; he caused artificial
islands to be made in the sea; he had his
suburban villas and civic mansions, furnished with
every elegance and convenience, while others were
formed to imitate caves."1
city walls. We have two periods for the building of the
city walls : the first period is in the age of Cyrus,
the latter in that of Lysimachus. In the former
instance, the lonians having refused Cyrus' offer
of alliance against Croesus, Cyrus, on his defeat
of the latter, refused them alliance; and they
fortified themselves immediately by building walls
round their several cities.2 Now we have seen,
in treating of the foundation of Ephesus, that
Mount Pion was probably the first part inhabited;
that on the arrival of the Ionian colonists,
1044 B.C., they settled on Mount Coressus, and
probably also on Mount Pion ; in the time of Croesus,
five centuries and a half before the Christian era,
they removed to the plain about the Temple of
Diana; and about 300 B.C. they were again
removed by Lysimachus to the hills. The walls
built by the Ephesians, therefore, on occasion of
the defeat of Croesus by C3T11S, must have been
in the plain, and those of Lysimachus either
on Mount Pion or Coressus. These walls were
destroyed by the Ephesians on the death of
1 Phil. Vit. Soph. ii. 23. -' Herod, i. 141.
by his planting all lands which he possessed, with
fruit-trees and shady groves ; he caused artificial
islands to be made in the sea; he had his
suburban villas and civic mansions, furnished with
every elegance and convenience, while others were
formed to imitate caves."1
city walls. We have two periods for the building of the
city walls : the first period is in the age of Cyrus,
the latter in that of Lysimachus. In the former
instance, the lonians having refused Cyrus' offer
of alliance against Croesus, Cyrus, on his defeat
of the latter, refused them alliance; and they
fortified themselves immediately by building walls
round their several cities.2 Now we have seen,
in treating of the foundation of Ephesus, that
Mount Pion was probably the first part inhabited;
that on the arrival of the Ionian colonists,
1044 B.C., they settled on Mount Coressus, and
probably also on Mount Pion ; in the time of Croesus,
five centuries and a half before the Christian era,
they removed to the plain about the Temple of
Diana; and about 300 B.C. they were again
removed by Lysimachus to the hills. The walls
built by the Ephesians, therefore, on occasion of
the defeat of Croesus by C3T11S, must have been
in the plain, and those of Lysimachus either
on Mount Pion or Coressus. These walls were
destroyed by the Ephesians on the death of
1 Phil. Vit. Soph. ii. 23. -' Herod, i. 141.