Wordsworth, Christopher: Greece, pictorial, descriptive and historical (London, 1853)

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204 DIOMEIA, CYXOSAKGES, COLYTTUS, MELITE.

Beneath these eight figures lines are traced on the walls of the tower,
which, by the shadow7 cast upon them by the styles fixed above, indicate the
hour of the day, as the Triton's wand does the quarter of the wind. When the
sun does not shine, recourse is had to the water-clock mihin the Tower, which
thus serves both as a vane and a chronometer.

The quarter of Athens which stretches from this building to the north-east
wall of the city is called Diomeia ; from it a gate, called the Diomeian, leads
to Cynosaeges, where is a gymnasium surrounded by a grove; this was the
school of Antisthenes, the founder of the sect of the Cynics: immediately
beyond it, in the same direction, is the lofty mountain of Lycabettus, or Hill
of Light, over whose pointed top the sun is seen from the west of the
Acropolis to rise at the summer solstice, from
which circumstance it derives its name.

Diomus was the son of Colyttus; and in
accordance with this relationship, the district of
Colyttus is contiguous to that of Diomeia ;
it lies on the west of it: on the west, again, of
that of Colyttus, and adjacent to it, is the re-
gion of Melite ; from Colyttus a

gate opens through the northern wall
on the road to Acharn^e - another
from Melite conducts to the
suburb of the Cerameicus, and

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