Note 70 — Chapter I · CIVIL AND MILITARY ARCHITECTURE.
Walter Armstrong translation
And this makes us think that the streets were narrow, a conjecture confirmed by the words of Herodotus. In speaking of the doors above mentioned by which the river was reached, he does not use the word πύλαι, but πυλίδες, its diminutive. If these doors were so small, the streets must have been lanes.