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There is also another
city at Syracuse, the name of which is
Achradina, in which there is a very large forum, most beautiful porticoes, a highly
decorated town-hall, a most spacious senate-house, and a superb temple of Jupiter
Olympius; and the other districts of the city are joined together by one broad
unbroken street, and divided by many cross streets, and by private houses. There is
a third city, which because in that district there is an ancient temple of Fortune,
is called Tyche, in which there is a spacious gymnasium, and many sacred buildings,
and that district is the most frequented and the most populous. There is also a
fourth city, which, because it is the last built, is called Neapolis, 1 in the highest part of
which there is a very large theatre, and, besides that there are two temples of
great beauty, one of Ceres, the other of
Libera, and a statue of Apollo, which is called Temenites, very beautiful and of
colossal size; which, if he could have moved them, he would not have hesitated to
carry off.
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