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pies] 
there might, however, have been a communication by four 
fteps*. 
Tuere is one window on each fide, 6, 4, next the fcena, 
which gives light to rooms under the fumma cavea, and two doors, 
g, 4, which lead to thefe and other detached rooms. Here it may 
be proper to obferve the contrivance of the archite@ in managing 
the feveral approaches on the fide of the hill, which are fupported 
by walls and entrances made to the theatre, to communicate in 
the moft convenient manner poffiblet. Thefe entrances are uni- 
formily contrived to give admiffion on the level of the uppermoft 
bench of the feveral claffes, with ftairs defcending to the precin¢tio, 
which feparates each clafs. from that immediately adjoining and 
below: a convincing proof that the two firft claffes of benches 
were not intended for one and the fame order of citizens. The 
principal entrances, 241, a1, are by arches of thirty feet high and 
anfwering the vertices, FI, of two of the equilateral triangles, 
whofe bafes are at right angles to the fcena. This feems to be the 
approach to the platform K HCED, of four feet broad and one 
foot high, next and adjoining the orcheftra. About thirty feet 
diftant from this principal entrance and higher up the hill two 
other arches, 22, 22, about five feet lower than the others, lead 
[E 2] “by 
* See Plate I. in which the ftairs are marked) by dotted lines to anfwer to: the 
feveral vomitoria. ; 
‘+ Aditus complures et, fpatiofos oportet difponere, nec conjunctos fuperiores 
inferioribus, fed ex omnibus locis perpetuos, et direétos fine inverfuris faciendos, 
uti cum populus dimittitur de fpe€taculis, ne comprimatur, fed habeatex omnibus 
locis exitus feparatos fine impeditione. Vitruvius Lib. 5.. Cap. 3. 
Plate II. 
Plate 16 
and IJ.. 
