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KYN020TP02.
" KTPTIAAAI.
KTXPEIfiS.
KCIATUE1.
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AAPINE.
AAPI22A.
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AOPI22A.
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AEITTAPION.
AETKOnTPA.
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AIMNAI. From A/paj,
lustris.
AOY2IA.
ATKABHTTOS'.
MAKAPIA'.
OF ANCIENT NAMES OF PLACES IN ATTICA.
Kvvoo-ovgcc, (pvXq Aanovixri, ttou ccxgu, rov M.<x.ga,daJvog Tpog rqv JLvCotuv
TSTgotf^si/jj. Hesychius. " Cynosura, a Laconian tribe, and a pro-
montory of Marathon directed towards Eubcea." a
" Hesychius. Vid. Chand. Ins. Ant. KTPTEIAAI, p. 62.
" Uayog «sp) ~2ccXa[Mva. Steph. Byz."
" Suidas. Meurs. llel. Att. C. XL"
The birth-place of ^Eschines " the " orator. « Plut. X Orat. Vitae."
" The" country of Miltiades and Cimon. " It is" so entirely
ruined, that even the ruins are without a name, and scarce dis-
cernible ; it must be on the road to Eleusis. It was the second
demos on the sacred road.
" Vid. Ins. Ant."
Pliniusb. Fons.
Step, in voce Larissa, xou lv rn 'Arrtxri Icrri Aupia-ffa..
" Spon, Liste de l'Attique. This demos was near Sunium, but
the tribe to which it belonged is not known."
" Hesychius mentions this demos, but Meursius does not name it
in his work de Populis Attica? 5 but it is inserted in his Reliqua
Attica, C. XL
" See inscription in the first Vol. PI. II. Fig. 1, and Kavyia, in
list of Modern Names."
Hesychius " mentions it as a place", %ugtov r), " beyond Mount
Parnes."
KovSvga., or Kovtpvga % near two miles from Keratia, on the road
to Marcopolis; it bears 51° 50' e. of s. from Lambria. ** See
Cuvara in the Map of Attica."
" Steph. Byz. in voce Aqvcciog, says, "E<rri Sz xou Iripog."
Aid Tdvra, lv ru dp^aieorciTto Upu tov Aiovvtrov lv Atpvaig 'icTtjirccv.
Demost. Orat. in Near. Aipveu lv 'A&wuif ronog, x. t. X. He-
sychius.
" Steph. Byz."
A hill near the town.
Wnyh- " A fountain." Paus. L. I. XXXII.
Pa-
losophers called Kvnw), Cynics, founded by Antisthenes, who
met at a gymnasium at Cynosarges. The site of the place was
probably to the south of Anchesmus, near to Asomato. See Pot-
ter's Antiquities. [Jed. J
a By this quotation from Hesychius, it does not appear that
there was a demos called Cynosouros. LED,J
b " In Attica Fontes, Cephissia, Larine, Callirhoe, Enneacru-
nos." Plin. Lib. IV. C. VII. [ed.]
c This is marked according to the pronunciation on Stuart's
Map of Attica, PL II. " Cuvara." [e";]
d The Leneeum was a precinct sacred to Bacchus, and derived
its name from an appellation of that deity who had a temple
within its boundary. It was situate in the district called
Limnse, or " The Marshes", and was probably contiguous, on the
south, to the great Dionysiac theatre. [Jed.]
e Plato says, that Lycabettus was near to the Pnyx ; the rocky
heights to the nw. of the Propyleeum, and to the sw. of the
Temple of Theseus, are generally supposed to be the locality an-
ciently so named. This place at the most populous period of an-
cient Athens, was within the walls, and the rocks shew marks
of dense habitation. Although, according to ancient tradition,
it derived its name from wolves, and had a subsequent celebrity
among poets for its olive groves; these heights are now in a state
of abandonment surpassing their original desolation. [ed.]
f "Ectti <Je {» tb Ma?«Sivi wuy» y.a.Kovjx'itn Maxa^la. " But in
Marathon there is a fountain called Macaria." This name was
given to it from Macaria, the daughter of Hercules and Dejanira,
who there devoted herself, in compliance with the oracle, to ob-
tain victory to the Athenians, when the Peloponnesians first
warred against them- Dr. Clarke supposed he had discovered
the fountain of Macaria, on the Marathonian plain, in his de-
scription of which he says: " Proceeding through the cotton
grounds and the corn land, and leaving the village of Sefairy
towards our left, we came again to the Charadrus, and having
KYN020TP02.
" KTPTIAAAI.
KTXPEIfiS.
KCIATUE1.
KnenKiAAi.
AAKIAAAI.
" AAMITPA K»06mg()iv.
" AAMnPA Mnfitt."
AAPINE.
AAPI22A.
" AATPION."
** AEKKON."
AOPI22A.
" AETKONION."
AEITTAPION.
AETKOnTPA.
AHNAION".
AIMNAI. From A/paj,
lustris.
AOY2IA.
ATKABHTTOS'.
MAKAPIA'.
OF ANCIENT NAMES OF PLACES IN ATTICA.
Kvvoo-ovgcc, (pvXq Aanovixri, ttou ccxgu, rov M.<x.ga,daJvog Tpog rqv JLvCotuv
TSTgotf^si/jj. Hesychius. " Cynosura, a Laconian tribe, and a pro-
montory of Marathon directed towards Eubcea." a
" Hesychius. Vid. Chand. Ins. Ant. KTPTEIAAI, p. 62.
" Uayog «sp) ~2ccXa[Mva. Steph. Byz."
" Suidas. Meurs. llel. Att. C. XL"
The birth-place of ^Eschines " the " orator. « Plut. X Orat. Vitae."
" The" country of Miltiades and Cimon. " It is" so entirely
ruined, that even the ruins are without a name, and scarce dis-
cernible ; it must be on the road to Eleusis. It was the second
demos on the sacred road.
" Vid. Ins. Ant."
Pliniusb. Fons.
Step, in voce Larissa, xou lv rn 'Arrtxri Icrri Aupia-ffa..
" Spon, Liste de l'Attique. This demos was near Sunium, but
the tribe to which it belonged is not known."
" Hesychius mentions this demos, but Meursius does not name it
in his work de Populis Attica? 5 but it is inserted in his Reliqua
Attica, C. XL
" See inscription in the first Vol. PI. II. Fig. 1, and Kavyia, in
list of Modern Names."
Hesychius " mentions it as a place", %ugtov r), " beyond Mount
Parnes."
KovSvga., or Kovtpvga % near two miles from Keratia, on the road
to Marcopolis; it bears 51° 50' e. of s. from Lambria. ** See
Cuvara in the Map of Attica."
" Steph. Byz. in voce Aqvcciog, says, "E<rri Sz xou Iripog."
Aid Tdvra, lv ru dp^aieorciTto Upu tov Aiovvtrov lv Atpvaig 'icTtjirccv.
Demost. Orat. in Near. Aipveu lv 'A&wuif ronog, x. t. X. He-
sychius.
" Steph. Byz."
A hill near the town.
Wnyh- " A fountain." Paus. L. I. XXXII.
Pa-
losophers called Kvnw), Cynics, founded by Antisthenes, who
met at a gymnasium at Cynosarges. The site of the place was
probably to the south of Anchesmus, near to Asomato. See Pot-
ter's Antiquities. [Jed. J
a By this quotation from Hesychius, it does not appear that
there was a demos called Cynosouros. LED,J
b " In Attica Fontes, Cephissia, Larine, Callirhoe, Enneacru-
nos." Plin. Lib. IV. C. VII. [ed.]
c This is marked according to the pronunciation on Stuart's
Map of Attica, PL II. " Cuvara." [e";]
d The Leneeum was a precinct sacred to Bacchus, and derived
its name from an appellation of that deity who had a temple
within its boundary. It was situate in the district called
Limnse, or " The Marshes", and was probably contiguous, on the
south, to the great Dionysiac theatre. [Jed.]
e Plato says, that Lycabettus was near to the Pnyx ; the rocky
heights to the nw. of the Propyleeum, and to the sw. of the
Temple of Theseus, are generally supposed to be the locality an-
ciently so named. This place at the most populous period of an-
cient Athens, was within the walls, and the rocks shew marks
of dense habitation. Although, according to ancient tradition,
it derived its name from wolves, and had a subsequent celebrity
among poets for its olive groves; these heights are now in a state
of abandonment surpassing their original desolation. [ed.]
f "Ectti <Je {» tb Ma?«Sivi wuy» y.a.Kovjx'itn Maxa^la. " But in
Marathon there is a fountain called Macaria." This name was
given to it from Macaria, the daughter of Hercules and Dejanira,
who there devoted herself, in compliance with the oracle, to ob-
tain victory to the Athenians, when the Peloponnesians first
warred against them- Dr. Clarke supposed he had discovered
the fountain of Macaria, on the Marathonian plain, in his de-
scription of which he says: " Proceeding through the cotton
grounds and the corn land, and leaving the village of Sefairy
towards our left, we came again to the Charadrus, and having