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 «8S COEfflTHUa Pli Port-Ta1laiannurlr doe DDiIli, a thct the nil nu the right huid wu alJed the mthel t h»e for battl*. [S«Kl>iiva,p.677,s.] The flit nuntr; between Cwinth and Leduuam it compued onlj of the Bind wiihed ap bf the sea; uid the port innst hiive been origiiitU]]r artificiat (xmt&i Ai^qv, Dionjs.), thoa|[]i it m no doubt nndend both ■■■cioua iind conrenitnt b; the vemlth]' Coriuthiuu. 1'he niie of the port ia non indjcolcd by ■ iHgrwn, aummndod by hUloelw of nnd. I-ecliBenm "tas the diief italion of the Corinthian sKifa irf war; and during the occupation of CoriiitJi by the Jlucrdo- uiana. it waa one of the staliona of the roral floet. It ma alao the emporium of the traffic villi llie wealein {arte uf Gmn. and willi Italy and Sicily. The proximity of Lwhaeum to dirinth preieut&l it fVom becomine an important lann lllie Peiiaeeua. Tba oniy pi^lic building to the place mcDtiuaed by Pau- nniaa (ii. S. g 3) «u a temple of Poeeidon. who la hence called Lwhaetut by CHllimacbue. (,LtL 271.) The temple of the Olympian Zeua vta pmbablj ei. tuated Qpon Uie Inw groand between Corintli and the ihore of LcFliaenm. (Paua. iii. 9. § 2 1 TheopLr. Com. Plant, i. 14.) CiKCHKEAE (Ktyxpittl, Strab. Tiii. p. 380i Paiu. ii. 3. g 3i PtoL iii. 16. g 13; Kt7XI""i. That i'. 43; Kf/xp"™'. Thuc siii. 20; Ki(>X'"t Calliin.iW.871i Cenchreis or Cenchrie, Oi-. Trirt. L 10. 9), llie port of the Saronic gulf, was distant from Corinth about 70 stadia, and waa the emporium of the trado with Aua. (Strab. ). c) Tills port «aa not eimply an artiflclal one, like that of Lechaeum. It is a biy protetleii by tno prooimtories on the north and south, from ithich the CoriothLans cmnied vndar the I lathcf rtinf-re IB Pins (figured below) the pot of Cendireae is represented aa iocleaed between two promontories, on each of whicb standi a teinple, azu! between them at the entisnce of the hari»ar a statue of Posndon, holding ■ trident in one liand and a dnl. phin in the other. This agrees with the description of Faueaniai, from whom we learn that the broien Poendon atood npon a rock in the sa. that to the right of the entrance was th« temple of Aphrodite, and to iha Itft, in the direction of the warm springs, CriLoMiAL Coin OF CoRnrrii. — (On the i the tiead rf Antoninui Piua: on th« reverse the port of Cenchrene. The letten c. L-i. con. stand for oi- I...SIA i..g IVUA fomsTitTS: loe iboie, p.678,a.) COBINTHUS. ven the nncburies of Asclepiaa and of Ift t*- (Pans. IL 2. § 3, in which paaaa^ uutwd of^il^uri, we ought either to adopt Leake's emendatioOf'^i^iaTj, or dee X'''«"0 Cenchnae is meDtioned in the hlatory of St. Paol (Act. ApoH. iriii. IS; Ep. ad Htm. xrl .) lib now desntad, bat it rttauu its name m the tarn KikhrHt. The ancdent town stood npoo the slope* of the bill above the town, as tba nnmrroos ra- maina of ite foundations jxove. Between this hill and the heights to the right and tha lelt then were two small plains, through una of whicb no tbc load leading to Schoenoi, and through tin other the road leaduig to Corinth. Pansanias mcnti.ms ((. c.) certain luke-wann alt- iprini^B, flowing from a rock into the Fva oicr agiin^t CenchiTW. and called the bslh of Helen. Tfa>7 an found about a mile SW.of Cenchreae, on thewnt pn>- iry. They rise at a sufficient dietancr and hBght a mill in ichieae to Corinth nin in a Bouthwnterlj direction thmigh a tiantnr vallcv, sbtit the purpose of long walls. On the left hand wen Ihe high ntni:es of the Oneian n m of the 1 lights m inth w V. The Isthmus. important i»rt of Ihe territory rf Co. I Istlimtu, both ai the place acnisa tha western aea, and more especially as halloweJ by the calebrstion of the Isthmian games. The word /ilinmi ('Iiril^iii) probahly cones fnxn tlw root I, which appnrs hi l-4nu "to go," nid tbs Latin >-ra, and hence originally moant a pauj;^. From being the proper name of thia sprA, it cams to be applied to the neck of any peninanla. The the monntaJD barriers of the Geraneia on the north and the Oneia on the south, has been almdy de- scribed. [See obore, p. 6T4.J The word was uned both in a wider and a narrower aignificatini. In ita wi.ter use it indicated the whole land lying betwean tha two gulfs, and hanca Corjntb Is said to have been ■itiulrd oa tha Isthmos (tU^r#«> M rf 'i«A«^ ■ /