Wordsworth, Christopher: Athens and Attica: journal of a residence (London, 1837)

CHAP. VIII.]

OF ATHENS.

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with the exception of that of Lycabettus. This we
believe for the following reasons to be identical with
the hill on which we now are; namely, with the hill
of St George.

First of all, it must be conceded, that such a
remarkable hill as the present, and one immediately
overhanging the city, could not long have remained
without a name. It is also an isolated hill; there-
fore its name would have been limited to itself.

Now of all the other earlier names of Attic moun-
tains, there is not one, that must not either be applied
to some other hill, or that can be applied to this
remarkable hill of St George. The names Pentelicus,
Brilessus, Hymettus, and others, have all been occu-
pied by other mountains: that of Lycabettus alone
remains to be disposed of. Hence we infer that St
George and Lycabettus are the same.

The same inference must be derived from the
passage of Plato2 above noticed. To give an idea
of the extent of a place, it is natural to specify the
limits by which it is bounded: and those limits, to
answer this purpose, must be at opposite extremes;

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Hpidavov Kai tou yWi<radv dirofiefinKtiia, Kai TrepieiXricpvTa kvTos ti]v
TlvuKa Kai tov AvKafi-nTTdv opov eK tou KaTaVTiKpv Tljs Hvvkos
*XovtFa......

Formerly the Acropolis stretclied to the Eridanus and the Ilissus,
comprising the Pny.x within its circuit, and reached to Mount Lyca-
bettus, its limit on the opposite side to the Pnyz.