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CHAP. XXII.J DIOMEIA, LYCEUM. 1*79
speaks of ^Eschines as acting with very limited suc-
cess, in a tragic character, intends to add to the
bitterness of his sarcasm by specifying also that the
representation took place in Collytus. Hence too
the district of Collytus was probably assigned by
Lucian to Timon the Athenian man-hater, as an ap-
propriate place for his extraction. Connected with
Collytus on the east was the quarter called Diomeia.
Their relation was expressed by the legend, that
Diomus was son of Collytus4. Here were the Dio-
meian gates, which led into the Cynosarges and the
Lyceum5. This is our limit on the east.
Not far to the east of the Theseum a building
of considerable interest is supposed to have stood,
the Stoa which from the frescoes that adorned it
was called Poecile. The Poecile has been identified
with an ancient edifice which still exists in the posi-
tion above specified. This opinion does not seem to
me to be well founded. The architecture of this
building is of a style posterior to the date of the
Poecile. There is also upon its walls an inscription
which appears from its position to be coeval with the
building itself; but which, as its language and the
4 Toup. Hesyc. in. p. 525. Steph. Byz. Aw/ieia. Diomeia was a
borough of the .Egeid Tribe. In Bekker. Lex. Seg. p. 240. for AEIOMNA;
Stj/jioi Alytfiim is to be read AIOMEIA. Collytus, Melite and Diomeia
are properly combined in Plutarch Exil. T. vm. p. 372. Reiske.
5 In Milton's description of Athens (P. R. iv. 283.) the only topo-
graphical inaccuracy is the site there assigned to the Lyceum. He places
it within instead of without the walls.
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speaks of ^Eschines as acting with very limited suc-
cess, in a tragic character, intends to add to the
bitterness of his sarcasm by specifying also that the
representation took place in Collytus. Hence too
the district of Collytus was probably assigned by
Lucian to Timon the Athenian man-hater, as an ap-
propriate place for his extraction. Connected with
Collytus on the east was the quarter called Diomeia.
Their relation was expressed by the legend, that
Diomus was son of Collytus4. Here were the Dio-
meian gates, which led into the Cynosarges and the
Lyceum5. This is our limit on the east.
Not far to the east of the Theseum a building
of considerable interest is supposed to have stood,
the Stoa which from the frescoes that adorned it
was called Poecile. The Poecile has been identified
with an ancient edifice which still exists in the posi-
tion above specified. This opinion does not seem to
me to be well founded. The architecture of this
building is of a style posterior to the date of the
Poecile. There is also upon its walls an inscription
which appears from its position to be coeval with the
building itself; but which, as its language and the
4 Toup. Hesyc. in. p. 525. Steph. Byz. Aw/ieia. Diomeia was a
borough of the .Egeid Tribe. In Bekker. Lex. Seg. p. 240. for AEIOMNA;
Stj/jioi Alytfiim is to be read AIOMEIA. Collytus, Melite and Diomeia
are properly combined in Plutarch Exil. T. vm. p. 372. Reiske.
5 In Milton's description of Athens (P. R. iv. 283.) the only topo-
graphical inaccuracy is the site there assigned to the Lyceum. He places
it within instead of without the walls.
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