surrounded by dwelling-houses. This building derived its name from Hippodamos of Miletos, the architect who erected it, and laid out the whole maritime city in the regular and beautiful style of which he was the inventor.[230] Here, also, were several other market-places or bazārs, among which may be reckoned a place[231] resembling the Laura of Samos, the Sweet Ancon of Sardis, the Street of the Happy at Alexandria, and the Tuscan Street at Rome, in which fruit, confectionary, with delicacies and luxuries of every kind were exposed for sale. In these agora, as now in the bazārs of Cairo, Damascus, and Constantinople, were beheld, in close juxtaposition, the wines of Spain and Portugal, amber from the shores of the ocean, the carpets, shawls, and jewels of the East, fruit and gold from Thasos, ivory and ostrich feathers from Africa, and beautiful female slaves from Syria, Dardania, and the southern shores of the Euxine, the Mingrelians and Georgians of the modern world.[232] Around these singular groups the young men of Athens, in an almost oriental pomp of costume, might be seen lounging, some perhaps purchasing, others merely looking on, half in haste to return to the gymnasium or to the lectures of Socrates. Footnote 225: Cf. Steph. De Urb. v. Πειραιός. p. 633. G. sqq. Footnote 226: Leake, Top. of Ath. p. 311. sqq. Footnote 227: Paus. i. 1, 2. Plut. Them. § 32. Meurs. Pir. c. 3. Footnote 228: Strab. ix. 1. p. 239. Footnote 229: Harp. _v._ Ἱπποδ. Xen. Hell. ii. 4. Dem. in Timoth. § 5. Andoc. de Myst. § 10. Footnote 230: Arist. Polit. vi. 8. p. 40. 16. vii. 11. p. 199. 25. Hesych. v. Ἱπποδ. νέμησις. Footnote 231: Athen. xii. 57, 58. Animad. t. 11. p. 468. Sch. Aristoph. Pac. 98. Footnote 232: See for the authorities, Book vi. chapters 11 and 12. Among the public buildings[233] in the harbour were the Deigma[234] or Exchange, where the merchants met to transact business, bringing along with them samples of their goods; the Serangion[235] or public baths; the superb temples of Zeus and Athena adorned with exquisite pictures and statues, where in an open court seems to have stood the celebrated altar erected by Demosthenes[236] in commutation of his fine of thirty talents; the Long Portico which served as an agora to those living near the shore;[237] the theatre,[238] and the court of Phreattys[239] on the beach, where the accused pleaded his cause from a galley lying afloat. Somewhere in the Peiræeus was an altar to “the unknown Gods,”[240] which, notwithstanding that the plural form is used, may possibly have been that to which Saint Paul alludes in his speech to the Athenians on the hill of Areiopagos. Footnote 233: Meurs. Pir. c. 4, 5, 6. Footnote 234: Harpocrat. in v. p. 74. Maussac. Etymol. Mag. 259. 51. Suid. in v. t. i. p. 665. Xen. Hellen. v. 1. 21. Aristoph. Eq. 975. et Schol. Dem. adv. Lacrit. § 7. Lys. cont. Tynd. frag. 120. Polyæn. Strat. vi. 2. 2. Footnote 235: