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 nad ((WjiT^t), which ma carried urtm it (Har- pxnt^ Said. (. v. oMnBoi'; Xen. ficJ/. ii. 4. § 30.) Under these cdrennBtaDMa the onlj ipot which the ■Dwcl Alheniins ctmld u» h s harbour was the anth-eaitem coriKi of the Phaleric bay, now called. aa almdj remarked, Tfitrt nipym, which tu a round hill projecting into lie sea. Thia vaa accordingly the Die of Fhalerom (♦(ttjj»r, also ♦aATjfKii : ATA. ♦"Alpeii), a demoa belonging to IhB tribe Acantis. This BtnatioD tocured to Ihe original inhabitanlB of Athena two adrantaga, which wen nut poSKssed (j the barbonn of the Peiraic peniDiula : first, it ■aa much neanrlothcinoataiicieatpartof the city, which was built for the moat part iminedittelr soDth ef the Acropidii (Thoc. ii. IS); and, leoondly, it wai acctsoble at eroy seasmi it the jear I7 a per- hctlj iry TTud. liie tme poulim of Pbaleniin ii indicated bj many drenmBtancea. It ia nerer incloded by andent ■rilera within llie walls of Praiseeiuand Hunjchia. Strain, after deacribing Pdraeeoi and Unnychia. •peaki of Phalemm aa the next place in order along tbe ahore (jirri t4» Ildfiaia ♦**!!/>»« JS*«' i' ^f J«^i inipiii<F, ii. p. 398). There is no spot at which Phalrmm could have been sitoated beibre reaching Tpeii nipTin, since the intertening shore rf the Phaleric gulf ia manhy (tI *aXi,p,K6t, Pint. VU. X Orat. p. 84*, Than. 12; Slrab. ii. p. 4001 EchoL ad ArMipk- iv. 1693). The accoant which Herodotoa givea (r. 63) of the defeat of Uie Spar- tana, who had landed at Phalenun, by (he Theasa- lian caTaliy of the Peiaistratidae, is in accordance with Ihe open coimti7 nhich eitenda inland near the chapel of St. George, hut would not be applicable tfl the Bay of Pkandri. which is complelelj pro- tected agonal the attacka of cavalry by the rogged mounlain rising immediately behind it; Moreover, Ulrichi discovered on the rt»d from Athens to St. George considerable snbetroctions of an ancient wall, apparently the Phaleric Wall, which, aa we have already seen, was five stadia shorter than the two LonE Walls. [See p. !S9. b.] That then was a town near St. Geor^ is evident from the remains of walls, colunms, cislems, and we leam from another aothoritj that thete may sTill be seen under water the remains of an ancient mole, upon which a Turkish ship was wrecked during the war of independence in Greece. (Westermann, in ZaUchrift fur dit Alterthiatamuauchaft, 1843, p. 1009.) Cape Colias (KoMai), where Ihe Penuan ships were cost ashore after the battle of Salamie (Herod, viii. 96), and which Pau&anias states to have been 20 stadia from Phalenim (i. I. § 5), used to be identi6td with Tptit niifrygi, but must DOW be placed SK. at the present Cape of SI. JEamui : near tho latter an some aodent remains, which are pnAaUy