And for a time the men from Phyle tried to prevent their coming up, but when they saw that the line of the town wall, extensive as it was, needed a large force for its defence, whereas they were not yet numerous, they gathered in a compact body on the hill of404 B.C. Munichia.On the eastern side of the Piraeus peninsula. And the men from the city, when they came to the market-place of Hippodamus,The architect of the market-place, as well as of the whole town of Piraeus. first formed themselves in line of battle, so that they filled the road which leads to the temple of Artemis of Munichia and the sanctuary of Bendis; and they made a line not less than fifty shields in depth; then, in this formation, they advanced up the hill.