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The present city was built during the Peloponnesian war, by the same architect,1 it is said, who built the Piræus. The Piræus, however, does not continue to exist, having formerly sustained injuries from the Lacedæmonians, who threw down the walls, and then from Sylla, the Roman general.

1 Hippodamus of Miletus.

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