. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. he keys of thePeloponnesus, but also from the extensive trade that flowed thither both by land andsea. All the land traffic between Peloponnesus and northern Greece necessarily passed In 1851 I sailed myself in one day from the wall was a picture of utter desolation. In Athens to Cenchrea in an open boat. the war between the Greeks and Turks thv 2 Cor. xi. 25. place had been burnt, and the blackenefl, roof- °- Acts xviii. 1. less, and tenantless walls proclaimed aloud what Acts xvii. 1. must have lieen the amount of human suffering When I was tluir in iSol
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. he keys of thePeloponnesus, but also from the extensive trade that flowed thither both by land andsea. All the land traffic between Peloponnesus and northern Greece necessarily passed In 1851 I sailed myself in one day from the wall was a picture of utter desolation. In Athens to Cenchrea in an open boat. the war between the Greeks and Turks thv 2 Cor. xi. 25. place had been burnt, and the blackenefl, roof- °- Acts xviii. 1. less, and tenantless walls proclaimed aloud what Acts xvii. 1. must have lieen the amount of human suffering When I was tluir in iSol the area within before Greece recovered her independence. 270 [ 51] ST. PAUL AT CORINTH. [Chap. XII. along the neck of the isthmus, and was made subject to a toll; and from the dangerousnavigation round the Peninsula the commerce by sea was carried on principally acrossthe Isthmus, and for this purpose Corinth had two ports, Lechaeum in the Corinthianbay, and Cenchrea in the Saronic bay. Lechaeum was only a mile and a half from. Fig. 136.—Plan uj th<- Istlimns. ,r market; 2. The Theatre; 3. Temple of Apulln .bhiuialti/ walla connecting Corinth with Port Lecha-ura. Corinth, and was connected with it by long walls, as the Piraeus was with Athens;Cenchrea, on the eastern shore, lay at a distance of eight miles and three-quartersfrom Corinth.^5 In the time of Alexander the Great, Corinth, like the rest of Greece, had beenunder the Macedonian sway; but on the conquest of Macedonia by the Eomans (finallyachieved at the battle of Pydna, 168), the Greeks were declared a free Achaeans, occupying the north of Peloponnesus to the west of Sicyon, now formeda league, and were joined by Corinth and other neighbouring states, and the influencethus gained having excited the jealousy of the Eomans, Greece was to be broughtunder subjection. The ground for hostilities was, that the Corinthians had insultedsome Eoman legates. The Achasans constituted Critola
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