s 221 A house near the lesche^ shown by its two inscriptionsto have belonged to the fourth century b.c. and to havebeen heavily mortgaged, is of polygonal masonry, but toolittle remains to enable us to reconstruct its ground plan.Unfortunately this is also the case with most of theremains: there… … Fig. 37. Houses in Melite It was in Melite that Phocion lived, in a house moreornate than the others, if Plutarch is to be trusted: thetemperance and simplicity of his character are certainlyagainst this (Plut. Phoc. 18): ij 8e oiKia Tov ^wKiauos en vvv iv MeXtVi; SciKKvrai ^^aXKOi;…
