. 3);but it was severed from the mainland, probablyby the elder Dionysius, and afterwards con-nected with it by means of a bridge.—2. Achra-dina (AxpaSlvri), or the Outer City, consistedprobably of the level plain between the GreatHarbour and the foot of Epipolae, bordered stantly use it. It has been argued with proba-bility from the language of Diodorus and Livy( Diod. xi. 73, 76; Liv. xxv. 30) that Achra-dina was, as has been said, the flat groundbelow Epipolae. But it should be mentionedthat many writers believe it to have inc
. 3);but it was severed from the mainland, probablyby the elder Dionysius, and afterwards con-nected with it by means of a bridge.—2. Achra-dina (AxpaSlvri), or the Outer City, consistedprobably of the level plain between the GreatHarbour and the foot of Epipolae, bordered stantly use it. It has been argued with proba-bility from the language of Diodorus and Livy( Diod. xi. 73, 76; Liv. xxv. 30) that Achra-dina was, as has been said, the flat groundbelow Epipolae. But it should be mentionedthat many writers believe it to have includedthe E. part of the plateau of Epipolae ; and thequestion cannot be said to be decided eitherway. Achradina communicated with the Islandby a fortified entrance called Pentapyla, at theend of the isthmus or causeway. At the timeof the siege of Syracuse by the Athenians in thePeloponnesian war (415), the city consisted onlyof the two parts already mentioned, Ortygiaforming the inner and Achradina the outercity.—3. Tyche (Tvxv), named after the temple. Walker &? Boutall sc. Plan of Ancient Syracuse (based on a mop in Freemans Sicily).A, circular fort (kvk\oc) of Athenian siege ; dotted line from Trogilus to Portella del Fusco, Athenian wall (doublethence to the) sea1); BA, direction of 1st Syracusan cross-wall; CD, direction of 2nd Syracusan cross-wall;EFGH, direction of last Syracusan counter-wall and forts. on the W. by the marshes of Lysimeleia. Whenthe city, in the time of Gelo, spread beyond itsoriginal limits in Ortygia, the level plain wasoccupied, and became what Thucydides callsthe Outer City. The Agora was in the partnearest the Island, and was surrounded withporticoes by Dionysius the elder (Diod. xiv. 7;Cic. Verr. iv. 53, 119). Adjoining it was thetemple of Jupiter (Diod. xvi. 83) and probablythe Prytaneum (Cic. Verr. iv. 57, 125). Thename Achradina does not seem to have beenused before the end of the fifth century ,and even the later writers Plutarch and D
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