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‘ broad, that.the people coming in or going out fhould not fuffer 
from, the narrownefs, of the portico. This portico does not ex- 
tend to the angles of the theatre, but ftops,and is cut off: oa 
each fide, by an interval of thirty-five palms, which was filled 
‘ by four benches differing from the cavea below only in this, 
that the upper bench. of the people was. broader, than the reit, 
and formed a. fort of fmall precin@io or area; diftinguifhing the 
upper from the lower order. Certain concealed flairs lead from 
thofe benches to the prifons (of which one ftill remains), where 
yokes, or iron rings are fixed to the walls for binding the 
_malefadtors. I muft obferve ftill farther that the portico is 
broken in the, middle, an interval being left between of twenty- 
two palms, on each fide of which there are four fteps, extend- 
ing feven palms and a half. Some faint remains of a bafe give 
room fo conjecture that a flatue was-placed in the middle of 
thefe, which the uniformity and finifhing of the building re- 
quired to mark the centre of the femicircle. The fides of the 
baie are fix palms and three-fourths broad, In the highefi bench 
of. the cavea, on each angle of the theatre, appear fix arched 
¢ windows, three on each fide: Over,-ithe portico there are four 
benches, the upper bench being broader than any even of the 
precinctios: certain fmall flairs furnifh an afcent from the four 
feats above mentioned to thefe upper benches, as well on each 
fide of the theatre as in the middle. The entrance to thefe 
feats is by detached ftairs projeCling behind the portico and con- 
tiguous to the mountain, leading to arched door-ways in the 
higheft part of the wall, of which only one remains. In the 
back part of this wall there are likewife quadrangular ftones, ten 
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