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26 MODERN NAMES OF TOWNS, VILLAGES, MONASTERIES, FARMS, ETC.
the original names of the modern villages, or, which is the same thing, the situation of the ancient
Demoi. But while I am intent on this work, it occurs to me that even the best writers who have
treated of the ancient Demoi may be ignorant of the names of some of them, as the manner in which
they pretend to fill up this number of 174 makes me suspect; for instance, Stephanus of Byzantium
reckons Cecropia among the Tricomoid; and yet I do not remember to have met with it in any list of
Demoi that has come to my hands. If the Acropolis was called by this name, the city could only be
composed of two Comoi or Demoi, whose names I shall not pretend to determine ; but how can it be
supposed that Am A, APEI02IIAr02, IINYE, KOAHN02 AEOPAI02, &c. which were parts
of the city, should be Demoi? And, if you take these away from the Catalogue, which to me appear
pure shifts to make up the number of Eustathius, they must leave a chasm difficult to fill, and which
will be considerably augmented, if you still continue to cancel those islands, rocks, promontories,
hills, &c. which probably have no title to this name; as ZH2THP, TAPOT2A, OAPMAKOT-
2AI, YTTTAAEIA, OPITTIOI, &c. I have added every name I could pick up, of what sort
soever, mountains, promontories, ports, &c. both because as a geographer these too fall within my
notice, and because some of them stand a better chance, in my opinion, to have been Demoi, than
many that are usually inserted in the catalogues, instances of which may be given in KHIIOI,
KOPONEIA, TETPAIIOAI2, TETPAKaM02, KTXPEIQ2, ELTAKPIA, &c.
I would likewise suppose, that not only the Eleusinian Demoi were reckoned in the number of
Attic boroughs, but likewise those of Salamis, if not Megara, though it seems as if Megara was
excepted.
grove of the Academy to the north of Athens. The Cephissus,
and other mountain streams, are exhausted in their irrigation,
the waters of which were made an object of taxation by the
Waivode. The regular revenue of Attica transmitted to Con-
stantinople was about 750 purses, or 375,000 piastres, equal to
about 21,500/. sterling; but the GreekCodgca-Bashees or Archons
who collected the revenue, are said to have exacted double that
sum from their oppressed brethren, on which account discontent
and division existed in the Greek interest itself. Between 3000
and 4000 barrels of oil are annually exported, (the whole pro-
duce being reported at 20,000 measures of five and a half okes
each,) besides a small quantity of butter, cheese, silk, honey,
resin, pitch, valanea, leather, and a few cattle.
Attica, by the latest intelligence, is again untrodden by the
Turk, after hostilities of six years' duration, and yet a melancholy
incertitude is allowed still to envelope the destiny of Hellas ;
but it is to be hoped that the combined efforts of the real friends
to the cause of Humanity, Freedom, and Christianity, united
with the ultimate aid of Great Britain, will, in defiance of the
spoliations of pretended Philhellenes, and the hitherto heartless
policy of foreign Cabinets, call into permanent existence a nation
to which her history, her sufferings, and her perseverance so amply
entitle her. If legitimacy be the order of the day in European
congresses, the legitimate existence of a Greek Nation cannot
surely be questioned, and may they reflect according to the lan-
guage of Cicero, that this is the country once the fountain of
civilization — " unde Humanitas, Doctrina, Religio, Fruges,
Jura, Leges Ortsc, atque in Omnes Terras Distributee putantur."
Potter's Ant. of Greece, C. IX. andX. Thucyd. L. II. C. XIII.
On the Money and Revenue of Attica, by the Earl of Aberdeen,
in Walpole's Memoirs on the Levant, V. I. p. 425. Remarks,
concerning Attica, in Dr. Sibthorp's Journal, loco cit. p. 141.
Hobhouse's Travels, V. I. p. 296. Waddington's Visit to Greece,
2d Ed. p. 92. Dodwell's Tour through Greece, V. II. p. 5.
Dr. Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. II. C. X. Cicero, Orat. pro
L. Flacco, s. 26. [bd.]
" The whole of this list appears to have been left in a very
unfinished manner by Mr. Stuart, and as such it is given to the
public'. [it/]
c The list of Modern Names of Places in Attica, with Stuart's
observations attached to them, has been duly appreciated by later
topographical writers, to whom it has been a sort of guide in their
researches in Attica. This list is re-produced according to Stu-
art's text, with the corrections that were conspicuously required.
In addition, we have subjoined such illustrations from the works
of modern travellers as will tend to render more useful and in-
teresting the incipient labours of our author. In order to make
the list of ancient names more complete, we have added those of
several Attic Demoi not inserted by Stuart, which arc proved by
ancient authors or marbles to have had existence—these additions
are distinguished by inverted commas—as well as such augmenta-
tions of the notes of the text as were found requisite.
At the termination of Stuart's list of ancient names of places
in Attica, it will be seen that we have introduced a newly ar-
ranged table of the Attic Demoi, scrupulously classed from in-
scriptions and the ancient authorities, and compared with the
observations of the early and recent modern writers on Attic to-
pography.
We trust our readers will take in good part our endeavour to
render more correct and complete, these unmatured, yet valuable
researches. CED-]
d Tricomoi was a compound name analogous to that of Cinque-
Ports with us. The passage of Stephanus Byzantinus regarding
it IS, T^Hupovc, Si tiotou; ix.x.Xav» EuwujiJaf, KexgoiriSas, n«Xnxa;.
" They called Tricomoi [inhabitants belonging to three villages]
the Eupyrides, the Cecropides, the Pelices." Meursius proposes
the amendment in this passage of K^uvriSa.^ for KixpcnrlSag, from
the Attic Demos of K^uvix, (Cropia,) subsequently mentioned;
but Thucydides distinctly says, that the Peloponnesian army
coming from Eleusis marched through Cecropia (<5ta KExjw7n<*f)
to AcharnEe, having Mount iEgaleos on the right; which passage
tends to confirm Stephanus, and points out a position for a place
named Cecropia beyond the branch of mountains which separates
the Thriasian plain from that of Athens. See Kixquiria. in anc.
list. Steph. in v. Eivv^iSat. Thucyd. L. II. C. XIX. and the
words Ewtwii«« and Kgam'&«» in the Reliqua Attica of Meursius,
c iv. v. CED0
See following note.
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the original names of the modern villages, or, which is the same thing, the situation of the ancient
Demoi. But while I am intent on this work, it occurs to me that even the best writers who have
treated of the ancient Demoi may be ignorant of the names of some of them, as the manner in which
they pretend to fill up this number of 174 makes me suspect; for instance, Stephanus of Byzantium
reckons Cecropia among the Tricomoid; and yet I do not remember to have met with it in any list of
Demoi that has come to my hands. If the Acropolis was called by this name, the city could only be
composed of two Comoi or Demoi, whose names I shall not pretend to determine ; but how can it be
supposed that Am A, APEI02IIAr02, IINYE, KOAHN02 AEOPAI02, &c. which were parts
of the city, should be Demoi? And, if you take these away from the Catalogue, which to me appear
pure shifts to make up the number of Eustathius, they must leave a chasm difficult to fill, and which
will be considerably augmented, if you still continue to cancel those islands, rocks, promontories,
hills, &c. which probably have no title to this name; as ZH2THP, TAPOT2A, OAPMAKOT-
2AI, YTTTAAEIA, OPITTIOI, &c. I have added every name I could pick up, of what sort
soever, mountains, promontories, ports, &c. both because as a geographer these too fall within my
notice, and because some of them stand a better chance, in my opinion, to have been Demoi, than
many that are usually inserted in the catalogues, instances of which may be given in KHIIOI,
KOPONEIA, TETPAIIOAI2, TETPAKaM02, KTXPEIQ2, ELTAKPIA, &c.
I would likewise suppose, that not only the Eleusinian Demoi were reckoned in the number of
Attic boroughs, but likewise those of Salamis, if not Megara, though it seems as if Megara was
excepted.
grove of the Academy to the north of Athens. The Cephissus,
and other mountain streams, are exhausted in their irrigation,
the waters of which were made an object of taxation by the
Waivode. The regular revenue of Attica transmitted to Con-
stantinople was about 750 purses, or 375,000 piastres, equal to
about 21,500/. sterling; but the GreekCodgca-Bashees or Archons
who collected the revenue, are said to have exacted double that
sum from their oppressed brethren, on which account discontent
and division existed in the Greek interest itself. Between 3000
and 4000 barrels of oil are annually exported, (the whole pro-
duce being reported at 20,000 measures of five and a half okes
each,) besides a small quantity of butter, cheese, silk, honey,
resin, pitch, valanea, leather, and a few cattle.
Attica, by the latest intelligence, is again untrodden by the
Turk, after hostilities of six years' duration, and yet a melancholy
incertitude is allowed still to envelope the destiny of Hellas ;
but it is to be hoped that the combined efforts of the real friends
to the cause of Humanity, Freedom, and Christianity, united
with the ultimate aid of Great Britain, will, in defiance of the
spoliations of pretended Philhellenes, and the hitherto heartless
policy of foreign Cabinets, call into permanent existence a nation
to which her history, her sufferings, and her perseverance so amply
entitle her. If legitimacy be the order of the day in European
congresses, the legitimate existence of a Greek Nation cannot
surely be questioned, and may they reflect according to the lan-
guage of Cicero, that this is the country once the fountain of
civilization — " unde Humanitas, Doctrina, Religio, Fruges,
Jura, Leges Ortsc, atque in Omnes Terras Distributee putantur."
Potter's Ant. of Greece, C. IX. andX. Thucyd. L. II. C. XIII.
On the Money and Revenue of Attica, by the Earl of Aberdeen,
in Walpole's Memoirs on the Levant, V. I. p. 425. Remarks,
concerning Attica, in Dr. Sibthorp's Journal, loco cit. p. 141.
Hobhouse's Travels, V. I. p. 296. Waddington's Visit to Greece,
2d Ed. p. 92. Dodwell's Tour through Greece, V. II. p. 5.
Dr. Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. II. C. X. Cicero, Orat. pro
L. Flacco, s. 26. [bd.]
" The whole of this list appears to have been left in a very
unfinished manner by Mr. Stuart, and as such it is given to the
public'. [it/]
c The list of Modern Names of Places in Attica, with Stuart's
observations attached to them, has been duly appreciated by later
topographical writers, to whom it has been a sort of guide in their
researches in Attica. This list is re-produced according to Stu-
art's text, with the corrections that were conspicuously required.
In addition, we have subjoined such illustrations from the works
of modern travellers as will tend to render more useful and in-
teresting the incipient labours of our author. In order to make
the list of ancient names more complete, we have added those of
several Attic Demoi not inserted by Stuart, which arc proved by
ancient authors or marbles to have had existence—these additions
are distinguished by inverted commas—as well as such augmenta-
tions of the notes of the text as were found requisite.
At the termination of Stuart's list of ancient names of places
in Attica, it will be seen that we have introduced a newly ar-
ranged table of the Attic Demoi, scrupulously classed from in-
scriptions and the ancient authorities, and compared with the
observations of the early and recent modern writers on Attic to-
pography.
We trust our readers will take in good part our endeavour to
render more correct and complete, these unmatured, yet valuable
researches. CED-]
d Tricomoi was a compound name analogous to that of Cinque-
Ports with us. The passage of Stephanus Byzantinus regarding
it IS, T^Hupovc, Si tiotou; ix.x.Xav» EuwujiJaf, KexgoiriSas, n«Xnxa;.
" They called Tricomoi [inhabitants belonging to three villages]
the Eupyrides, the Cecropides, the Pelices." Meursius proposes
the amendment in this passage of K^uvriSa.^ for KixpcnrlSag, from
the Attic Demos of K^uvix, (Cropia,) subsequently mentioned;
but Thucydides distinctly says, that the Peloponnesian army
coming from Eleusis marched through Cecropia (<5ta KExjw7n<*f)
to AcharnEe, having Mount iEgaleos on the right; which passage
tends to confirm Stephanus, and points out a position for a place
named Cecropia beyond the branch of mountains which separates
the Thriasian plain from that of Athens. See Kixquiria. in anc.
list. Steph. in v. Eivv^iSat. Thucyd. L. II. C. XIX. and the
words Ewtwii«« and Kgam'&«» in the Reliqua Attica of Meursius,
c iv. v. CED0
See following note.
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