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TWO
LONG WALLS.
[chap. XXIV.
hear of
' either
of the two Long Walls,'
TWV
/naicpwv
Tei^WV
to e/cciTepovi
for the same
reason.
In all these eases an abstraction, as it were, is
made of the Phaleric, or most 'southern and short-
est wall of the three: but when the middle wall is
considered, as it very rarely is, with reference not
to the northern Peiraic wall alone, but to the Pha-
leric wall also—as, for instance, when the erection
of this middle wall after that of the other two is
mentioned—then it is very properly no longer termed
the southern wall, to votiov Teiyos, but the inter-
mediate wall, to Sid /neaov TeI^o92, as lying along
between the other two. The reason why, in ordinary
cases, the Phaleric wall was neglected in this assig-
nation of names, seems to have been the insignifi-
cance of the Phaleric harbour, compared with that of
the Peiraeus.
By these considerations, all the difficulties which
have been occasioned by the varieties of designation
by which the Long Walls are characterized, may,
I think, be satisfactorily removed.
1 Pausan. rm. 10. 4. calls it twenty stadia. The length of the two
long walls fra fjutKpd Teixv •jrpds tov Hetpatd) was forty. Thuc. II. 13.
Strabo, p. 606. and Villoison Anecd. i. 55.
' Plato, Gorg. 456. A. Harpocrat. rov Sid fievov tcixovs. P'u"
tarch, who is very circumstantial on this point, clearly identifies the
Std fiearov Tfixos with a paicpdv t«?x<>s. Compare his expression
in Vit. Pericl. p. 620. with those in his de Glor. Ath. p. 383. (Reiske.)
He agrees with Plato in attributing its commencement to Pericles.
TWO
LONG WALLS.
[chap. XXIV.
hear of
' either
of the two Long Walls,'
TWV
/naicpwv
Tei^WV
to e/cciTepovi
for the same
reason.
In all these eases an abstraction, as it were, is
made of the Phaleric, or most 'southern and short-
est wall of the three: but when the middle wall is
considered, as it very rarely is, with reference not
to the northern Peiraic wall alone, but to the Pha-
leric wall also—as, for instance, when the erection
of this middle wall after that of the other two is
mentioned—then it is very properly no longer termed
the southern wall, to votiov Teiyos, but the inter-
mediate wall, to Sid /neaov TeI^o92, as lying along
between the other two. The reason why, in ordinary
cases, the Phaleric wall was neglected in this assig-
nation of names, seems to have been the insignifi-
cance of the Phaleric harbour, compared with that of
the Peiraeus.
By these considerations, all the difficulties which
have been occasioned by the varieties of designation
by which the Long Walls are characterized, may,
I think, be satisfactorily removed.
1 Pausan. rm. 10. 4. calls it twenty stadia. The length of the two
long walls fra fjutKpd Teixv •jrpds tov Hetpatd) was forty. Thuc. II. 13.
Strabo, p. 606. and Villoison Anecd. i. 55.
' Plato, Gorg. 456. A. Harpocrat. rov Sid fievov tcixovs. P'u"
tarch, who is very circumstantial on this point, clearly identifies the
Std fiearov Tfixos with a paicpdv t«?x<>s. Compare his expression
in Vit. Pericl. p. 620. with those in his de Glor. Ath. p. 383. (Reiske.)
He agrees with Plato in attributing its commencement to Pericles.