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 On the Topography of Halicarnassus. 355 Media (of Vitruvius) and the city were destroyed. They probably therefore were the double Acropolis mentioned by Strabo ; but the third is certainly mentioned by Diodorus, Arrian, and Vitruvius ; and as certainly its remains are seen behind the Theatre." p. 349, note (g). Mr Newton admits that " most of the com- mentators interpret" the description of Vitruvius (Lib. n. cap. 8), so that he must "have viewed the scene with his face to the sea." (Class. Mus. v. p. 175.) p. 349, note (h). The Temple of Mercury (Hermes) and Venus (Aphrodite) was according to Vitruvius (n. 8) near, or "ad ipsum Salmacidis fontem." See Ovid's tale (Met. lib. iv. fab. 9) of this famous, or rather infamous fountain, " quare male fortibus undis Salmacis enervet, tactosque remolliat artus," the enervating property of which was supposed to change men into women, or into both sexes, Hermaphrodites. Perhaps the combination of the two sexes may be typified by the single temple of the united Deities Hermes and Aphrodite. p. 349, note (i). Professor Ross places the royal palace of the Carian monarchs on the spot now occupied by the castle of St Peter. Vitruvius (loc. cit.) says, " in sinistro cornu regia Domus, quam rex Mausolus ad suam rationem collocavit. Con- spicitur enim ex ea ad dextram partem forum et portus moenium- que tota finitio ; sub sinistra secretus sub montibus latens portus ita ut nemo possit quid in eo geratur adspicere nee scire : ut rex ipse de sua domo remigibus et militibus sine ullo sciente quas opus essent imperaret." Boss would substitute in this passage, the word mcenibus for montibus, observing that, " walls of rock (montes) here reach nowhere else so close on the shore, that they could conceal the second smaller harbour ; it is therefore probable to read mcenibus : an arsenal defended by a pier and high walls on the left (and east) under the royal palace, the present castle." I have examined several editions of Vitruvius, but cannot find any emendation, or various reading, of moenibus for montibus. Mr Morritt, however, seems to me to explain the difficulty in the following extract from his MS. Journal : " There is a picturesque little port behind the castle, to the East, shut in by the rock of the Arconnesus. This was the little port seen from the palace of the Carian Kings, which stood in the old Acropolis, where the