. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. uXovpevco, Xidoi re ela-iv Eppai, &c. Pausan. i. 17, 2. The arod fiaa-iXetos andthe (TTod IloiKiXri were apjiarently contiguous, forthe Mercuries began from both Porches, dwd ydpTi]s UniKiXijs Kal rrjs rod /SacrtXetou orods fl(TLV olEpixal. Harpocrat. and Phot. Eppai. The ex-planation perhaps is, that the Mercuries com-menced from Eppfjs Ayopalos, the Mcrcm-y ofthe market, which stood at the western end ofthe Eoyal Porch, and were thence continued infront of the Painted Porch and up the .streetleading to the Diijylum Gate. They might thusbe said to run from
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. uXovpevco, Xidoi re ela-iv Eppai, &c. Pausan. i. 17, 2. The arod fiaa-iXetos andthe (TTod IloiKiXri were apjiarently contiguous, forthe Mercuries began from both Porches, dwd ydpTi]s UniKiXijs Kal rrjs rod /SacrtXetou orods fl(TLV olEpixal. Harpocrat. and Phot. Eppai. The ex-planation perhaps is, that the Mercuries com-menced from Eppfjs Ayopalos, the Mcrcm-y ofthe market, which stood at the western end ofthe Eoyal Porch, and were thence continued infront of the Painted Porch and up the .streetleading to the Diijylum Gate. They might thusbe said to run from the two porches, viz. firstfrom the Eoyal Porch northward, and thencefrom the Painted Porch westward.* Pausan. i. 15, 1. S7. PAUL AT ATHEXS. [ 51] Mercury of the Markot, and this is regarded as the very centre of the Agora. It•was erected Ly the nine arehons, and is one of the most admired pieces of casting inbronze in all the city. It is sometimes also referred to as the JEercurv of the the Mercury of the Fig. 122.—Wan o/Alliem. From Spruners Atlas. The Eoyal Porch (Itoo, BacriXetos), the colonnade on our right, as we stand atthe end of the Piraic Street, is so called because here the king archon sits for thetrial of caiises,^ and upon the summit are mounted the statues of Theseus throwingSciron into the sea and of Aurora carrying away Cephalus, and before the cloisterstand the statues of Conon and of his little less celebrated son Timotheus.^ Thecolonnade in front of us as we stand at the end of the Piraic Street, the colonnadewhich lines the west side of the street which continues the Piraic Street, is thecelebrated Painted Porch, so called from the numerous paintings with which it is ^ fV (rrj dyopd IdpyTai Kpfiov *Ayopaiov (iyaXpa. Scholiast ad Aristoph. Equit. 297. ol ivvia iip)^ovTes rais <^uXai9 dviSeaav KpiirjvTrapd TOP TTvKoiva Toi/ ^Xttikov (IcgC, ^\yopa\ov^.Uiirpocrat. aud Photius. wepi Tuv Epfirjv Tuv TTpos Til TTvXidi. E
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