Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three bookes of the Attick antiquities. Containing the description of the citties glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices, account of their yeare, as also a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rous.

  • Rous, Francis, 1615-
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1637
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Credit: Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three bookes of the Attick antiquities. Containing the description of the citties glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices, account of their yeare, as also a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rous. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    50 - Ar chsolegu Attic* Lib.l Cap.z. and a quarter. The utmoft wall of which Thucydides fpeakes in his fecond book confided of flue miles a quarter and halfe. The girdle of Piraum and Munychia had feven miles andan halfe more. All which being put together make up but twen- tie two miles one quarter and one furlong. But Dion Chrjf°- Ltjuft be here undetftood; and it behoves us to conceiue that he lpake not barely of the naked walls,for then it cannot 4 toco citato hold; but I fuppofefome houfes to haue beene without ‘'©^c ^itfei/3oX«r>ashe faies.TOttftQ-.o/Ko^ 5%orlxas ^nZmilfiTasm. In which I appeale to more judicious heads. Neither can I filently paffe by the opinion of/<?/)» Meurfius,who reading in f In Arcad. p. tTauftWitu thefe words AS{wcutlffi <f& &tJhs( fidktou orwmr 2.44-1.37- m i <*&( »&*»* > fhould prefently f Att Lc A1 ? obtrude to us, that Paufanias teaches, that the wall called f.4i ' Phalericus is but ty/cmt ftadia or two mile and an halfe. When indeed he meant nothing leffe. Tor fpeaking of fait fprings,which he calls saKctaws jwfywnt, he feemes to involue a reafon drawne from the neereneffe ofthe fea. For when he writes ofthisbrackifh well, sAmong the tAthenians, thefe* ■which comes up mere V haler us is diftant from the City but tweutie ftadia at the moft, quoth he. Where Amafaus hath thus flrangely doted. Athena d Phalero abfuntftadia baud am- pltus xx. And that this was the meaning of the Author, protfes that which followes. He might haue likewife confi- fidered that with a Dative cafe fignifies not onely/**M and prope as I haue tranflated it; batfupra fbmetimes , which will now {erue better. And Afeurjius indeed blames the i. nuinbcr;but fees not into the words. Nowitisnotneedlefle b Lib.j.Elcg. tjiaf tjje’tw0 walls,which joynes Viraum and tAthens at fo 31 Pb‘if- long adiltance.befomewhatfpoken of.feeing they are rec- Mnh.p. ii <. konedby3 Livie among the mult a vifcnda.Uznythmap wor- 1.9- *' thy offight at Athens. Thefe are the n**#! T«’^i,in b Vroperti- WP !g- 3 5 S d* us,—Thefea.brachia longa via. c Appian of Alexandria, • .. ffl(ix»,and'* Plutarch in Cimone. One lying towardes the Do. North,of which Plutarch. The other towards the South, I15‘ ' * . in