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LIST OF ANCIENT NAMES OF PLACES IN ATTICA.
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" MAPA0HN.
MEAAINAI".
ME0OTPIA.
" MEAITH.
MEIAHTON za) MIAHTON
" MTNTXIA."
« MTPPINOT2."
« t:
STnETH."
OA.
OH.
OIONd AEKEAEIKON.
OION KEPAMEIKON.
" Ins. Ant. Num. Ant."a
" Medovgiothg" wot f^srafv Aiyivqg xcu 'Arrixys, <c -?rXti<riov Tgoi-
£5Jno?. * Methuriades, islands between iEgina and Attica, near
Trcezen.' Vide Steph. Byz. 1687- Plin. Lib. IV. C. XII."
" Steph. Byz. Harp. Ins. Ant. There were two Melite, one
within, the other without Athens, the last of which only was a
demos, as with other names of districts in the city, correspond-
ing with those of townships outside the gates."
" Spon, Liste de l'Attique. Vide Note at p. 7."
" Steph. Byz. Ins. Ant. Murrhinus is so called from the myrtle which
abounded there (Mvppwm myrtetum). Schol. Aristoph. Plut."
" Steph. Byz. Ins. Ant. It was called anciently Tgwa, whence
some authors relate that Teucer migrated into Asia, and founded
in the Troad a city called Teucris. Strabo, L. XIII. p. 604.
Dionys. Hal. L. I. C. 61. See name Tgolu."
" Steph. Byz. In Attic inscriptions "OuOev is found. See Spon."
" Steph. Byz. See also "OqOev on inscriptions."
" Harpocration. Ins. Ant."
crossed its channel, we found upon the north-east side of it the
remains of another monument, somewhat similar to that of Mil-
tiades; close to which there is an ancient well, answering by its
position to that of Macaria, mentioned by Pausanias." Accord-
ing to the late Colonel Squire, who also laid down a plan of
this celebrated plain, « The Macaria of Pausanias is a copious
fountain, about a mile above the village of Marathon, surrounded
>y a circular foundation of ancient masonry, the stream de-
rived from which, after passing down the valley, parallel to the
river, to the distance of three quarters of a mile? is then con-
ducted across the river in a wooden trough, where it is employed
in the gardens." The two sites pointed out as the place of the
fountain by the last named authors, are about three miles distant
from each other, but it must be confessed that the vivid stream
of Colonel Squire, which still waters the gardens of Marathon,
must prevail in the opinion of the discriminating reader over the
ancient well of Dr. Clarke. A subsequent traveller, Mr. Dod-
well, also states : " At the foot of the hill of Pan is the fountain
Makaria, which was evidently much ornamented." Future re-
search may still find a subject in the full developcmcnt of the
antiquities and topography of this most impressive locality. Vide
Paus. Lib. I. C. XXXII., Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. II. C. I.
Walpole's Memoirs, V. I. p. 327. Dodwell's Travels, V. II. p.
162. Or,]
a A very interesting description, by the late Colonel Squire,
Royal Engineers, of the plain and battle of Marathon, accom-
panied with a map, may be consulted in Walpole's Memoirs on
Turkey, Vol. I. p. 324. The Attic towns of Marathon, Prasiae,
and Anaphlystus, coined money. ^ |>D-3
b Melamae was on the northern side c-f Mount Icarius towards
Bceotia ; Statius terms it verdant, " viridesque Mclaenae." Theb.
L. XII. [ed.]
c Dr. Spon says, in his Liste de 1'Attique. « Miletum. Trois
ou quatrc inscriptions antiques des Milesiens que j'ai trouvees a
Athenes ct aux environs, m'ont fait soupconner qu'il y avoit
peut-etre un bourg de ce nom dans l'Attique, outre le quartier
d« Melite, dont les habitans etoicnt nommes MttW? et ceux la
M^cno, ou M.Xwoi: et effectivement j'ai trouve que Pline en fait
mention, en parlantdc l'Attique :— Rhamnus Pagus, locus Ma-
vol. m.
rathon, campus Thriasius, oppidum Miletum, ct Oropus in con-
finio Boeotice. Les nouvclles editions ont Melita, mais quoi
qu'il en soit ce seroit toujours un lieu different du Melite, qui
etoit unc partic de la ville d' Athenes, au lieu que ce Melita ou
Miletum, selon les vielles editions, est qualifie du nom d' oppi-
dum : et pour plus grande preuvc, voyez l'inscription ou entre
une douzainc de pcuples d'Attique qui y sont nommes elle dis-
tingue fort bien ces deux pcuples dans ces deux lignes. Asa/idns,
AcunSov MEAITETE, et, 'Eoriaro; Aiovtwot; MIAHEIOE. Car ce
Milesios no pent pas etre de Milet en Asie Mineure, puisqu'il
ri'est question dans cettc inscription, que des pcuples de l'At-
tique." In the Dolphin edition of Pliny, this place is named " op-
pidum Melita": concerning which the Jesuit Hardouin (who
profited largely by Spoil's information on Greece, and who is cele-
brated as having put forward a paradox on the spuriousness of the
majority of the classics, as well as of antique medals) makes this
commentary: " Melita. Sic MSS. omnes, editioncsquc castiga-
tissimac !—Frustra Miletum hoc loco Sponius obtrudit, hoc est
Athenarum urbis rcgionem, pro Atticao oppido. Signat hunc
Attica; locum et vctus inscriptio ab eodem Sponio relata." The
reverend Father was himself alone perplexed with the resem-
blance of the two names on this occasion ,• and by the comparison
of inscriptions the existence of the Attic demos Miletus is con-
firmed. In the later editions of Spon, no allusion is made to this
note, he having died at Vevay in the same year that the Pliny of
Hardouin appeared, on the 25th of December, 1685, on his route
to Zurich, whither flying from Lyons, on the revocation of the
edict of Nantes, his attachment to the Protestant religion had
forced him to seek an asylum. Spon's Voyages. Corp. Ins. Grace.
Vol. I. n. 181. 692. Plin. L. IV. C. VII. Nou. Diet. Hist.
[ed.]
<) oi'ov means " near to." Steph. Byz. says, O'o* is a demos of
the tribe Leontis. The Cio* of Deceleia seems to be alluded to
in an inscription of Chandler, which, it is supposed, was one of
the stelae of the Ceramicus mentioned by Pausanias, recording the
names of soldiers slain in battle, beneath the demoi to which they
belonged, where HOINOY is restored and amended by Boeckh to
'E|olV Paus. L. I. C. XXIX. Corp. Ins. Vol. I. p. 308. [ed.]
53
" MAPA0HN.
MEAAINAI".
ME0OTPIA.
" MEAITH.
MEIAHTON za) MIAHTON
" MTNTXIA."
« MTPPINOT2."
« t:
STnETH."
OA.
OH.
OIONd AEKEAEIKON.
OION KEPAMEIKON.
" Ins. Ant. Num. Ant."a
" Medovgiothg" wot f^srafv Aiyivqg xcu 'Arrixys, <c -?rXti<riov Tgoi-
£5Jno?. * Methuriades, islands between iEgina and Attica, near
Trcezen.' Vide Steph. Byz. 1687- Plin. Lib. IV. C. XII."
" Steph. Byz. Harp. Ins. Ant. There were two Melite, one
within, the other without Athens, the last of which only was a
demos, as with other names of districts in the city, correspond-
ing with those of townships outside the gates."
" Spon, Liste de l'Attique. Vide Note at p. 7."
" Steph. Byz. Ins. Ant. Murrhinus is so called from the myrtle which
abounded there (Mvppwm myrtetum). Schol. Aristoph. Plut."
" Steph. Byz. Ins. Ant. It was called anciently Tgwa, whence
some authors relate that Teucer migrated into Asia, and founded
in the Troad a city called Teucris. Strabo, L. XIII. p. 604.
Dionys. Hal. L. I. C. 61. See name Tgolu."
" Steph. Byz. In Attic inscriptions "OuOev is found. See Spon."
" Steph. Byz. See also "OqOev on inscriptions."
" Harpocration. Ins. Ant."
crossed its channel, we found upon the north-east side of it the
remains of another monument, somewhat similar to that of Mil-
tiades; close to which there is an ancient well, answering by its
position to that of Macaria, mentioned by Pausanias." Accord-
ing to the late Colonel Squire, who also laid down a plan of
this celebrated plain, « The Macaria of Pausanias is a copious
fountain, about a mile above the village of Marathon, surrounded
>y a circular foundation of ancient masonry, the stream de-
rived from which, after passing down the valley, parallel to the
river, to the distance of three quarters of a mile? is then con-
ducted across the river in a wooden trough, where it is employed
in the gardens." The two sites pointed out as the place of the
fountain by the last named authors, are about three miles distant
from each other, but it must be confessed that the vivid stream
of Colonel Squire, which still waters the gardens of Marathon,
must prevail in the opinion of the discriminating reader over the
ancient well of Dr. Clarke. A subsequent traveller, Mr. Dod-
well, also states : " At the foot of the hill of Pan is the fountain
Makaria, which was evidently much ornamented." Future re-
search may still find a subject in the full developcmcnt of the
antiquities and topography of this most impressive locality. Vide
Paus. Lib. I. C. XXXII., Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. II. C. I.
Walpole's Memoirs, V. I. p. 327. Dodwell's Travels, V. II. p.
162. Or,]
a A very interesting description, by the late Colonel Squire,
Royal Engineers, of the plain and battle of Marathon, accom-
panied with a map, may be consulted in Walpole's Memoirs on
Turkey, Vol. I. p. 324. The Attic towns of Marathon, Prasiae,
and Anaphlystus, coined money. ^ |>D-3
b Melamae was on the northern side c-f Mount Icarius towards
Bceotia ; Statius terms it verdant, " viridesque Mclaenae." Theb.
L. XII. [ed.]
c Dr. Spon says, in his Liste de 1'Attique. « Miletum. Trois
ou quatrc inscriptions antiques des Milesiens que j'ai trouvees a
Athenes ct aux environs, m'ont fait soupconner qu'il y avoit
peut-etre un bourg de ce nom dans l'Attique, outre le quartier
d« Melite, dont les habitans etoicnt nommes MttW? et ceux la
M^cno, ou M.Xwoi: et effectivement j'ai trouve que Pline en fait
mention, en parlantdc l'Attique :— Rhamnus Pagus, locus Ma-
vol. m.
rathon, campus Thriasius, oppidum Miletum, ct Oropus in con-
finio Boeotice. Les nouvclles editions ont Melita, mais quoi
qu'il en soit ce seroit toujours un lieu different du Melite, qui
etoit unc partic de la ville d' Athenes, au lieu que ce Melita ou
Miletum, selon les vielles editions, est qualifie du nom d' oppi-
dum : et pour plus grande preuvc, voyez l'inscription ou entre
une douzainc de pcuples d'Attique qui y sont nommes elle dis-
tingue fort bien ces deux pcuples dans ces deux lignes. Asa/idns,
AcunSov MEAITETE, et, 'Eoriaro; Aiovtwot; MIAHEIOE. Car ce
Milesios no pent pas etre de Milet en Asie Mineure, puisqu'il
ri'est question dans cettc inscription, que des pcuples de l'At-
tique." In the Dolphin edition of Pliny, this place is named " op-
pidum Melita": concerning which the Jesuit Hardouin (who
profited largely by Spoil's information on Greece, and who is cele-
brated as having put forward a paradox on the spuriousness of the
majority of the classics, as well as of antique medals) makes this
commentary: " Melita. Sic MSS. omnes, editioncsquc castiga-
tissimac !—Frustra Miletum hoc loco Sponius obtrudit, hoc est
Athenarum urbis rcgionem, pro Atticao oppido. Signat hunc
Attica; locum et vctus inscriptio ab eodem Sponio relata." The
reverend Father was himself alone perplexed with the resem-
blance of the two names on this occasion ,• and by the comparison
of inscriptions the existence of the Attic demos Miletus is con-
firmed. In the later editions of Spon, no allusion is made to this
note, he having died at Vevay in the same year that the Pliny of
Hardouin appeared, on the 25th of December, 1685, on his route
to Zurich, whither flying from Lyons, on the revocation of the
edict of Nantes, his attachment to the Protestant religion had
forced him to seek an asylum. Spon's Voyages. Corp. Ins. Grace.
Vol. I. n. 181. 692. Plin. L. IV. C. VII. Nou. Diet. Hist.
[ed.]
<) oi'ov means " near to." Steph. Byz. says, O'o* is a demos of
the tribe Leontis. The Cio* of Deceleia seems to be alluded to
in an inscription of Chandler, which, it is supposed, was one of
the stelae of the Ceramicus mentioned by Pausanias, recording the
names of soldiers slain in battle, beneath the demoi to which they
belonged, where HOINOY is restored and amended by Boeckh to
'E|olV Paus. L. I. C. XXIX. Corp. Ins. Vol. I. p. 308. [ed.]