Let us look for a moment at the position of the two demes. As to the position of Melite there has never been any doubt, though its exact boundaries are not clearly defined. Melite was the deme-name given to the hill district West and North-West of the Acropolis. It extended on the West to the barathron, near which cheerful site Themistocles had his home. There, Plutarch[296] tells us, _in Melite_, he built the sanctuary of Artemis Aristoboule which gave such umbrage to the Athenians. Melite was, we know, near the agora and on higher ground. In the opening of the _Parmenides_[297] Kephalos meets Adeimantos in the agora. They want to see Antiphon, and Adeimantos says it will be easy enough for Antiphon has just gone home and ‘he lives close by in Melite.’ Demosthenes[298] in the speech against Konon says that he was walking in the agora near the Leokorion when he met Ktesias, and Ktesias ‘passed on to Melite up hill.’ Finally, and for our purpose most important of all, Melite certainly included the Pnyx hill. When Meton appears in the _Birds_[299] and is asked who he is, and where he comes from, he answers ‘Meton am I, Greece knows me and Kolonos.’ The scholiast is concerned as to whether it could correctly be stated that Meton was of the deme Kolonos, and _apropos_ of this, as to where a certain astronomical monument to Meton had been erected. According to one authority there was a sun-dial in the Pnyx in his memory. The scholiast then adds, ‘Is not, some say, _the whole of the district in which the Pnyx is included, the Kolonos called_ μίσθιος? So customary has it become to call the part behind the Long Stoa, Kolonos, though it is not. _For all that part is Melite_, and it is so described in the boundaries of the city.’ The scholiast is, of course, primarily concerned with the name of the hill dominating the later agora, and on which stands the so-called Theseion (Fig. 46), but incidentally he tells that the deme Melite which included that hill included also the Pnyx. Both points, it will later be seen, are for us important. Melite then is to the North-West and West of the Acropolis. Where is Diomeia? Its dimensions again are not exactly known, but happily its _direction_ is certain (Fig. 49)[300]. * * * * *