Its town-planning, therefore, might be as early as the seventh century B.C.Or (and this is the most probable conclusion) it may date from the days of Selinuntine prosperity just before 409, when the city was growing and the great Temple of Zeus or Apollo was rising on its eastern hill.

Or again, though less probably, it may have been introduced after 400.

We may conclude that we have here a clear case of town-planning and we may best refer it to the later part of the fifth century.[19] [Illustration: FIG.3.PLAN OF SELINUS] [19] Koldewey and Puchstein, _Die griech.

Tempel in Unteritalien und Sicilien_, p.

90, plan 29, from Cavallari; Hulot and Fougeres, _Selinonte_, Paris, 1910, pp.