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theatres, who were supposed to have sate in CHAP. 
VII. 
the Bouleuticon ; that is to say, upon the eight -, 
rows of benches within the middle of the 
(foika) Cavea of the theatre, between the 
eighth and the seventeenth row 2 . How little 
beyond the general form of a Greek theatre is 
really known, may be seen by reference to a 
celebrated work in our own language 3 , written 
professedly in illustration of the ".Antiquities of 
Greece" Yet this author, upon the subject of 
the Aoyifov, or 0y^gX^, commonly translated 
by the word pulpit, states, distinctly enough, 
that it stood in the middle of the orchestra*; 
which, as far as we can learn, is nearly the spot 
where these marble relics have been found: 
hence a question seems to arise, whether they 
(2) This is the part of a Greek Theatre assigned for the /you^ivrnin 
by Guilletiere, (see p. 259, Ch. IV. of this Volume,) who has founded 
his observations upon a careful comparison of the accounts left 
by the Antients with the actual remains of the theatres themselves. 
But Potter, and, after him, other authors who have written upon 
Grecian Antiquities, consider the lowest part of the COII.ON as the place 
appropriated to the seats of the magistrates ; which agrees with a 
custom still retained in some countries, especially in Sweden, In the 
theatre at Stockholm, the King and Queen sate, in two chairs, in the 
pit, in front of the orchestra. For the /3t/Xsi/xa, the Reader is 
referred to Aristophanes, and to Julius Pollux, lib. 17, c. 19. 
(3) Archffologvi Grceca, by John Potter, D.D. Archbishop of Canttr- 
lury. 
(4) See vol. I. p. 42. Lend. 1751. 
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