Word: enneacrunus
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This morning in Harvard 1, at 12 o'clock, Professor Dorpfeld will discuss the situation of Enneacrunus, the famous fountain of Athens which Thucydides tells us, in the fifteenth chapter of the second book of his History, was beautified and adorned by the tyrant Pisistratus. His interpretation of this famous passage will give members of the University a capital opportunity to observe his method...
...recently announced the startling theory that the temples and the fountain called Enneacrunus, named by Thucydides in this chaper, did not lie south and southeast of the Acropolis, as scholars have supposed, but to the west. His latest excavations have been made with the expectation of establishing by the aid of the spade the truth of his belief...
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