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SITUATION OF THE TEMPLE. 200
the city, opposite the Temple ; and then every
circumstance would confirm the position I have
assigned to it.1
1 It is due to the critical research and discernment of Dr. Guhl
to state the objections which are to be made to the position which
ho has assigned to the Temple of Diana. The situation he has
selected is immediately north of the city, and contiguous to the
stream running from the marsh on the other side of the city.
This stream he also calls the, Selinus, but he does not show the
other river Selinus. But granting to him the other river Selinus, and
thereby rendering his position of the Temple, equally with my own,
between the two rivers Selinus, and nearer to one stream than the
other, and allowing that his position of the Temple is still more
reconcilable than mine to the situation of the supposed Magnesian.
gate, in every other particular it will, I think, be found to tally
less with the particulars given to us. It measures only 2,800 feet
distant from Mount Pion, instead of 8,000, as told us by Vitru-
vius ; he makes no distinction between the City Port and the
Sacred Port ; he brings Port Panormus, or what he calls the
Ephesian Port, up to the city walls, when we know that it was
at some distance from the city ; he brings the port up to the
Temple, instead of taking the Temple down to the port; and his
position of the Temple at an equal distance from the sea as Ephesus
itself, and on the north side of the city, and consequently at greater
distance from any one coming from Marathesium and Pygela, is
apparently at variance with Strabo's expression, "Next comes
Panormus, with the Temple of Diana Ephesia, and then the city
of Ephesus." But though the plan seems thus inexact, in his text
he acknowledges two rivers Selinus, (Ephesiaca, p. 12,) and two
ports, the Sacred and the Civic—(Id. p. 9.)
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the city, opposite the Temple ; and then every
circumstance would confirm the position I have
assigned to it.1
1 It is due to the critical research and discernment of Dr. Guhl
to state the objections which are to be made to the position which
ho has assigned to the Temple of Diana. The situation he has
selected is immediately north of the city, and contiguous to the
stream running from the marsh on the other side of the city.
This stream he also calls the, Selinus, but he does not show the
other river Selinus. But granting to him the other river Selinus, and
thereby rendering his position of the Temple, equally with my own,
between the two rivers Selinus, and nearer to one stream than the
other, and allowing that his position of the Temple is still more
reconcilable than mine to the situation of the supposed Magnesian.
gate, in every other particular it will, I think, be found to tally
less with the particulars given to us. It measures only 2,800 feet
distant from Mount Pion, instead of 8,000, as told us by Vitru-
vius ; he makes no distinction between the City Port and the
Sacred Port ; he brings Port Panormus, or what he calls the
Ephesian Port, up to the city walls, when we know that it was
at some distance from the city ; he brings the port up to the
Temple, instead of taking the Temple down to the port; and his
position of the Temple at an equal distance from the sea as Ephesus
itself, and on the north side of the city, and consequently at greater
distance from any one coming from Marathesium and Pygela, is
apparently at variance with Strabo's expression, "Next comes
Panormus, with the Temple of Diana Ephesia, and then the city
of Ephesus." But though the plan seems thus inexact, in his text
he acknowledges two rivers Selinus, (Ephesiaca, p. 12,) and two
ports, the Sacred and the Civic—(Id. p. 9.)
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