. beensome confusion. The true acoount seems to bethat Enneacrounos ( Nine Conduits) wasbetween the Areiopagus and the Pynx, nearthe SW. corner of the former, being the watersupply of the ancient Agora : the traces of theconduit made by Peisistratus are found once bore the common name for springs,Callirrhoe, and this has caused a confusionwith the Athenian Callirrhoe oftenest men-tioned (Thuc. ii. 15 ; Hdt. vi. 137 ; Plat. ), which was near the banks of the Ilissus,between that stream and the Olympieum, thevaults of
. beensome confusion. The true acoount seems to bethat Enneacrounos ( Nine Conduits) wasbetween the Areiopagus and the Pynx, nearthe SW. corner of the former, being the watersupply of the ancient Agora : the traces of theconduit made by Peisistratus are found once bore the common name for springs,Callirrhoe, and this has caused a confusionwith the Athenian Callirrhoe oftenest men-tioned (Thuc. ii. 15 ; Hdt. vi. 137 ; Plat. ), which was near the banks of the Ilissus,between that stream and the Olympieum, thevaults of which temple are connected by asubterranean passage with the spring. ThisCallirrhoe still bears the same name. InPlatos day there was already a confusionbetween the two springs in connexion with thelegend of Oreithyia.—Suburbs. The OuterCeramicus (6 e|co /caAovuevos), NW. of thecity, was the finest suburb of Athens; origin-ally the Potters Quarter had been onesingle district, but the wall of Themistocles cutoff the Inner from the Outer Ceramicus at Coin of Athens. Obv„ head of Athene ; rev., owl and amphora—legend Etvv«Xci-A,ouipa-HpajtXct. Euryclides was one of the wporrarat. in 217 The threefigures probably represent the seal of one of the magistrates named above. ) Dipylon Gate ; through this suburb passed thesacred road to Eleusis, and at the gate anotherroad branched to the Academia which stood atthe further end of the district, six stadia fromthe city. The Outer Ceramicus was used as aburial-place, and here those who had fallen inwar had a public funeral and a monument ( ii. 34 ; Aristoph. Av. 394 ; Dem. de Cor.§ 297). A vast number of sculptured gravestones and inscriptions have been found these monuments the finest were just outsidethe Dipylon Gate, where they had been pre-served by the debris of ruin and rubbish causedby Sullas destruction of the neighbouring wall,under which they lay buried till 1863. Cynos-arges (rb KvvSo-apys-s),
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