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Whether the smaller thoroughfares took the same lines can be determined only by excavation. It would be a gentle guess to think so. Tafrali, Topographie de Thess. pp. 121 foll. and plan. E. Sachau, Reise in Syrien , p. 76; Mommsen, Ephemeris epigr. iv, p. 514, and Mon. Ancyr. Further south, on the edge of the Haurân, stood the town of Gerasa.
The epigram quoted a few pages back shows how the Greek writer lets his subject speak instead of expressing his own feelings about it. So does the following epitaph, placed by a father on his son's grave. Δωδεκετη τον παιδα πατηρ απεθηκε Φιλιππος ενθαδε την πολλην ελπιδα Νικοτελην. Callimachus, Epigr. 20: 'His father Philip laid here to rest his twelve-year old son, his high hope, Nicoteles.
For the inscription see Esperandieu, Acad. des Inscriptions, Comptes rendus, 1904, p. 497; Cagnat, Année Épigr., 1905, 12; and especially Schulten, Hermes, 1906, 1; a convenient English account is given by H.S. Jones, Companion to Roman Hist., p. 22.
Epigr. iii, p. 111 and Ges. Schiften, i. 158, 263, 371; Liebenam, Städteverwaltung, 393. Rules were also laid down occasionally to forbid balconies and similar structures which might impede the light and air in narrow streets, and it was a common rule that cemeteries and brickyards must lie outside the area of inhabitation.
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