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CHAPTER XXIV.
Theseae brachia longa Via?.
Pkopert. m. 20.24.
The outstretch'd arms of the Thesean Way.
Much has been said with respect to the number
and direction of the Long Walls which stretched from
the city of Athens to the sea. For my own part, I
do not perceive how we can avoid the conclusion that
at the time of the Peloponnesian War—for of later
times we do not here speak—there were three distinct
lines of fortification reaching from the walls of the
Athenian city to the sea-shore.
Of these the two exterior, namely, that extending
to the harbour of Phalerum on the south, and that
to the harbour of the Peirseus on the north, were
the first1 erected. As long as they stood alone, with-
out a third, they bore the name of ' The Long Walls:'
but 2 subsequently, when, at the instigation of Pericles,
1 B. c. 456. Thuc. I. 107. to; fiaKpd Tei\tj, to tc &a\rip6v8e
Kal to es Ileipaia—the last words are well added to distinguish these
pair of fiaKpd Tei'xi from that pair which afterwards bore the same name.
•After B.C. 445. (jEschin. ir. v. p. 51. 57. Andoc. p. 24. 23.)
which exactly corresponds with the time in which Pericles began to
have the direction of public affairs. Clinton, F.H. B.C. 444.
Theseae brachia longa Via?.
Pkopert. m. 20.24.
The outstretch'd arms of the Thesean Way.
Much has been said with respect to the number
and direction of the Long Walls which stretched from
the city of Athens to the sea. For my own part, I
do not perceive how we can avoid the conclusion that
at the time of the Peloponnesian War—for of later
times we do not here speak—there were three distinct
lines of fortification reaching from the walls of the
Athenian city to the sea-shore.
Of these the two exterior, namely, that extending
to the harbour of Phalerum on the south, and that
to the harbour of the Peirseus on the north, were
the first1 erected. As long as they stood alone, with-
out a third, they bore the name of ' The Long Walls:'
but 2 subsequently, when, at the instigation of Pericles,
1 B. c. 456. Thuc. I. 107. to; fiaKpd Tei\tj, to tc &a\rip6v8e
Kal to es Ileipaia—the last words are well added to distinguish these
pair of fiaKpd Tei'xi from that pair which afterwards bore the same name.
•After B.C. 445. (jEschin. ir. v. p. 51. 57. Andoc. p. 24. 23.)
which exactly corresponds with the time in which Pericles began to
have the direction of public affairs. Clinton, F.H. B.C. 444.