artift, and phyfician. Atticus is defcribed by Cicero as pleafed
with recollecting where the renowned Athenians had lived, or
been accuftomed to fit: or dilpute j and as fiudioufly contemplating
even .their fepulchres. The traveller will regret, that
defolation interferes, and by the uncertainty it has produced,
•deprives him of the like fatisfaétion j but, in the ftyle of the
_antients,to omit the refearch would merit the anger o f the
Mufes.
I t has been obferved, that, without Dipylon, the road
branched off -toward the Piraeus and Eleufis as well as /the
Academy. The road to the haven and
-not far from the temple o f Thefeus, and is nearly in the fame
direction as formerly.' On the rignt hand ó f the Elejifinian
road is a way, which leads to the fite o f the Acadenjy, Achmet
Aga had lately eredted a houfe on or near it, with a large garden,
arid a plentiful fountain by the road-fide, fupplied, itH^ likely,
by the channels which conduced to the coolnefs aqd verdure o f
the old fuburb. Farther on is a rocky knoll, which was the
Colorius Hippius. Some maffive fragments of brick-wall occur
there, with a folitary church or two.
I n the plain beyond the Eque^rian hill is the Cephiffus1, a
muddy rivulet, turning foine over-fhot mills in its pourfe
through a rich and fertile traCt covered with gardens, olive-trees,
and vineyards. The ftream antiently crofled the Eong-naalls in
its way to the Phaleric öiore, which alfo received the Iliffus.
Thefe waters, it is likely, formed the marfii. The Cephiffus
was very incorifiderable in the fummer. It is now commonly
abforbed, before it reaches the coaft; except after melting fnow
or heavy rain rufhing down from the mountains.
* Kytpicres i* T fyH u tv ) Strabo.
C H A P .
C H A P. XXIII;
effo Lyceum---Cymfarges---Mentionof them in Plato--~(The Jite.
W E proceed now to the Gymnafia on the other fide o f
Athens, the Lycéum and Cynofarges.
T he LycCum was facred to Apollo Lycius, a proper patron,
as an antient author has remarked, the god of health beftowing
the ability to excel in gymnic exercifes. The image reprefented
•him as refting after fatigue, with a bow in his left hand, his
right arm bending over his head. The Gymnafium was ereCted
by Lycurgus fon of Lycophron. T h e militia o f Athens paraded
there, and were inftruded in the- management o f their
horfes, fiiields and fpears, in forming the phalanx and in all
the eftabliflied modes o f .attack and defence. Behind the Lyceum
'was a m o S e n W K ifus. " The Lycéum was long noted for a
‘ p ^ ^ t r e e of uncommon fize, which is defcribed by Pliny, and
was near a fountain by the road-fide.
C yn osar g e s was but a little without the city-gate. There
was a temple of Hercules. They related, that when Diomus
was facrificing’ to the Hero, a white bitch had feized part of the
vidim, and carried it' to this fpot, where the altar was ereded
in obedience ' tb an ‘roilclei#’ which had foretold , that incident.
On a fummit near was the tomb o f Ifocrates. Philip who reduced''
the city to require aid from the Romans, encamped
• by Cynofarges, and fet fire both to that place and the Lyceum.
T hese Gymnafia were near the Iliffus, which river flowed
from the region, beyond Agrae, the Lyceum, and. the fountain
celebrated by Plato 1 j the bed making a curve near the junction
With the Eridanus. I Phædrus has been defcribed a$ going from
a houfe by the temple o f Jupiter Olympius toward the Lyceum,
* inmrvus 'lhffùs. Theb.
1, IV. V. 52. ai