jbegum _ Cimón then furnifh'ed' money, and made a foundation
with-chalk and msaffive-.ftanes, where the-.ground was wet and
marfhy. $ Pericles;completed it, . and' erefted the oppofite wall.
The Peloponhefiau -war .impending, he was- attentive the
fortifications in,general. Callicrates, was his architect.
i,ü-T n &,-.four hundred- tyrants* , who - ia thé firft year of fhe
ninety-£e<?ond Olympiadz! ulurped theygovernmeow of Athens,
;knowing 'that ^theiCppwej?.' depended ©n? the. pofléfiion of the
.Pilous,|waifed about, the .psomontoryf^tion. -Soph after'the
^ced^fiapnlah#|hfiiidi on the demolition of the ilrn gw alls,
exeeptlipnly tpn| hadi#, cQr: a mile ;and.a quarter, o b eaèh - fide';
and obtained ip under (the thirty ? tyrants h . a Th'rafybulus, the
bra^e^patrjgibyj,-whom thefe;wemexpeUed, fortified Munychia.
.Q m m , «folyed to.*rc$ore the w'alls. ofi the Pirseus and the long
U K gjEgjt p,envöfthenesj to rfeadqr the Pirasuscyelr, more feciire,
added a double fofle.
, v T ? f i Piras.ua.w-as reduced with great difficulty% Sylla,Jwho
demolished the walls, .and fet fire-to .the armoury and arfenals.
In the civil war it was in"a,.d.efejicel.efs. condition. ..Galenus,
.to Caefar,, feized it, i-nyefted Athens', and ravaged.the
jlefrrtory., (.Strabo,, who lived under the emperors ^Auguftus and
Tiherius^_,obferves,;that the, many yyajrs: had ideftm§ired cikialong
gvflls* with- the fortrefs o f ,Munychia, and had contracted the
Piraeus into a fmall fettlement by the ports and the Xtemple of
Jupiter. Saviour. This fabric was then adorned with wonderful
works of ‘ illuftrious; artifts;' aadh cfc-.-the outfide,
•with .ilatues. In the feeohd century, befides houfes for tri-
sf3®*®?8» t^le temple of Jupiter and Minerva remained, with their
images in brafii ; and a temple o f Venus, a portico, and the
tophb of Themiftocles. By Munychia was then! a temple of
^•Piana*. % Phalerum was a temple .of.Ceres, iof Minerva, and,
Before
* The city had expended notjefs thaji loop talents on the arfenal.
to .be removed.for three talents; "It -
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