Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

ARGOS. 65

In the Troades, Apros ina teixea aaina KTKAnnEi otpania

NEMONTAI.

On the western side of the hill of the acropolis, these fortifications
may be traced, and on the other side along the base of the hill to the
north of the theatre, another piece of ruined wall is yet discoverable,
on which are some sepulchral inscriptions almost destroyed by time.
The foundations on the western side seem the most ancient.

It is probable only Larissa and the other hill, which was that called
the Phoronean city, Pamanias, were fortified, or even inhabited in
very early times;

There was a strong position in the city named Aspis. Plutarch in
the Life of Pyrrhus. Livy says Argos had two citadels, Book 34,
Chap. 25, and there seems no second situation at all adapted to the
purposes of defence, except the summit of the hill of Phoroneus.
There was a hill called Prona either within the walls or in the neigh-
bourhood of Argos, on which Danaus assembled his associates.

The hill of Phoroneus was the spot on which that chief convened
his followers, and erected the first city, calling it by his own name.
When the acropolis of Larissa was built, the former remained a second
or lower citadel, and the fortress must have been that called
Aspis.