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Title: Constantinople ancient and modern : with excursions to the shores and islands of the Archipelago and to the Troad
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Dallaway, James, 1763-1834 Mercati, Gaetano
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Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, T. Cadell, junr. & W. Davies ...
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ars. Squires Ancient Greek Chronology,p. 120. c Homer notices the Scaean gate fo pecuharly, that doubts have arifen if there weremore than one. That there were others, we learn from B. v. 809, 0. v. 57, and once theDardan gate occurs, but whether it be the fame with the Scxan, is uncertain. Be that asit may, Dydimus has every appearance of truth when he decides (B. v. 809) that theScsean was the only carriage way. It fronted the plain, and commanded the view to theextreme point. The wall was fortified with towers having tra^aX^sif, ufually tranflated battlements, but certainly not analogous to thofe of Gothic invention ; and if theydid not form apertures like modern embrafures, it may be difficult to determine what theywere. Upon a collation of the paffages in which we find the word, it feems prokiblethat an sis-a/Jic was a part of the w.all fomewhat higher than the reft, projedling as abaftion towards the enemy, yet diftinguifhed from towers; or may it be the brackettedtops of them ?
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345 valler, with no apparent reafon, calls the tomb of Hecflor. It hasbeen opened and examined, but we could not learn the refult. There are others covered with grafs, appropriated likewife to Trojanheroes. Upon this area and the intermediate ground from the village,there is undoubtedly fpace enough for fuch a city as Troy is defcribedto have been. The level falls abruptly on the fouth, with a precipitatecliff, into a very deep ravine, forming a mural rock as compad; andregular as the remaining walls of Conftantinople, now almoft coveredat its bafe by the ftream and fands of the Simoeis, for the length offorty or fifty yards, and completing a fortification, rendered impreg-nable by nature, which will account for a ten years fiege, and thefuperlative epithet of walls conftrudled by the gods themfelves. ■i The hiftory of thefe tumuli is precarious, and has been determined at random bythe latter inhabitants of the country; for thefe mounds of earth were ancient Thracianbarrows, founded

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