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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ltas egisse vias subter mare ; qui nuncOre, Arethusa, tuo Siculis confunditur undis. ^En. iii. 694. Chap. XXVIIl. TOWXS. 597 are considerable remains built into the cliurcli of Santa Maria deUeColon!€. a temple of Diana, the palace of Hiero. and other edifices.•J. Aciiradina, the outer city of Thucvdides, contained the forum,the temple of Jupiter Olympius, a theatre, and the catacombs. 3.Tyche, so named after an ancient temple of Fortune, became one of themost populous parts of Syracuse, subsequently to the time of theAthenian expedition. 4. Neapolis, ^the new city, contained thetheatre, capable of holding iiJU iO spectators, an amphitheatre, severaltemples, and the Lautumiee, or cj^uarries. 5. Epipolae, which, in thetime of Thucydides, was applied to the whole of the plateau AV. ofAchradina, was afterwards restricted to the most inland and hi^rhestportion of it. This contained the fort of Euryalus, now called Mongi-hellisi, erected probably by Dionysius, and enlarged by Hiero II.
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IMap of Syracuse at the time of the Pelopomiesian War. Syracuse possessed two ports, the great harbour, the entrance to whichwas on the S. side of Ortygia, a land-locked bay, 15 miles in circum-ference, and the small harbour between Ortygia and Achradina. A fine Estremimi liunc, Aretliusa, milii concede laborem.Paiica meo Gallo, sed quee legat ipsa Lycoris,Carmina suut dicenda : iieget quis carniina Gallo ?Sic tibi, cum fluctus subterlabere Sicanos, Doris amara suani noii intermisceat undam. Yirg. I^cI. x. 1. 598 SICILIA. Book IY aqueduct, constructed by Gelon. and improved by Hiero^ supplied thetown witli water. About 1J miles from Xeapolis. and on tlie S. side ofthe Anapu?. stood the Olympieum, or temple of Olympian Jove, aboutwhich a village named Polichne grew up, and which was important as amilitary post^. commanding the bridge over the Anapus. which dischargesitself into the great harbour. Syracuse was originally governed by anaristocracy : this was superseded by a democracy in

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