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XVIII.]
PRIANSOS, PRAESOS, AND PYRANTHOS.
291
It may be added that the coins of Praesos exhibit
very different emblems from those of the maritime city
Priansos. At the Dictaean city we have Zeus, and
one of the bees, which, according to the legend, fed
him with honey in his infancy: we have also the bull:
Demeter and Apollo. At Priansos we find Poseidon
and his trident: the dolphin: the palm-tree: Asclepios
and his serpent.
The attempts of very distinguished living scholars
to maintain the identity of these two cities19, and even
to explain the one name as a dialectic form20 of the
other, must therefore fall to the ground.
The villages in this neighbourhood, and generally
throughout the plain of Mesara, suffered greatly during
the war. There were here no lofty and almost inac-
cessible mountains to flee to as a place of refuge. In
most of the villages full three-fourths of the houses are
in ruins. One which formerly contained twenty houses
has now only two. " A single day suffices for clearing
a plain," says Captain Manias.
The eparkhia of Rhizdkastro extends a little to
the west of Kasteliana. The grammatikds of Viano and
other persons have supplied me with a list of all the
villages of the district. One of them is Pyrathi. Now
there was an ancient city, if I may use the word city
of what seems to have been a very insignificant place
and little more than a village, called Pyranthos21, which
belonged to Gortyna, and the name Pyrathi is so mani-
fest a corruption of Pyranthos, that we can hardly
doubt of that city's district having been among these
reader may also compare 1. 8. of the same inscription {KexeipoTov^fiefcov
Kai auTwv vtto tou <5y\fi.o v) with what has been said above, at pp. 41-42.
on the Demos in the Cretan states.
19 Hoeck, Kreta, Vol. i. p. 413.
20 Boeckh, Corpus Inscr. Graec. Vol. n. p. 405. (in his dissertation,
De dialecto Inscriptionum Creticarum, §. 9.)
21 Stephanus Byzant. Tlupavdos, n-oXis fUKpa, »| k«!/utj t^s KptjVtjs
■vepl TnpTvva, oi ko.toikoiwtcs Ylvpiii/diOL,
»
PRIANSOS, PRAESOS, AND PYRANTHOS.
291
It may be added that the coins of Praesos exhibit
very different emblems from those of the maritime city
Priansos. At the Dictaean city we have Zeus, and
one of the bees, which, according to the legend, fed
him with honey in his infancy: we have also the bull:
Demeter and Apollo. At Priansos we find Poseidon
and his trident: the dolphin: the palm-tree: Asclepios
and his serpent.
The attempts of very distinguished living scholars
to maintain the identity of these two cities19, and even
to explain the one name as a dialectic form20 of the
other, must therefore fall to the ground.
The villages in this neighbourhood, and generally
throughout the plain of Mesara, suffered greatly during
the war. There were here no lofty and almost inac-
cessible mountains to flee to as a place of refuge. In
most of the villages full three-fourths of the houses are
in ruins. One which formerly contained twenty houses
has now only two. " A single day suffices for clearing
a plain," says Captain Manias.
The eparkhia of Rhizdkastro extends a little to
the west of Kasteliana. The grammatikds of Viano and
other persons have supplied me with a list of all the
villages of the district. One of them is Pyrathi. Now
there was an ancient city, if I may use the word city
of what seems to have been a very insignificant place
and little more than a village, called Pyranthos21, which
belonged to Gortyna, and the name Pyrathi is so mani-
fest a corruption of Pyranthos, that we can hardly
doubt of that city's district having been among these
reader may also compare 1. 8. of the same inscription {KexeipoTov^fiefcov
Kai auTwv vtto tou <5y\fi.o v) with what has been said above, at pp. 41-42.
on the Demos in the Cretan states.
19 Hoeck, Kreta, Vol. i. p. 413.
20 Boeckh, Corpus Inscr. Graec. Vol. n. p. 405. (in his dissertation,
De dialecto Inscriptionum Creticarum, §. 9.)
21 Stephanus Byzant. Tlupavdos, n-oXis fUKpa, »| k«!/utj t^s KptjVtjs
■vepl TnpTvva, oi ko.toikoiwtcs Ylvpiii/diOL,
»