HIERON. 413 
" marble seats" as " overgrown with bushes 4 :" 
those seats, according to our Notes, consist of 
common limestone; a difference of little moment: 
but as we paid particular attention to the 
dimensions and figure of this splendid structure, 
one of the most entire of all the Grecian thea- 
tres, and in its original and perfect state one of 
the most magnificent*, so we shall be very par- 
ticular in giving an account of it. We found it 
tenanted by a variety of animals, which were 
disturbed at our approach, hares, red-legged 
partridges, and tortoises : our new acquaintance 
Cordki, accompanied by his former master, a 
descendant of the goatherd Aresthanas, bounded 
among the seats, and, driving them from their 
haunts, soon put us into sole possession. 
But an animal of a very different nature was 
dragged from his lurking-place by Mr. Cripps; 
Sysi. (Ibid.) This expression of Pausanias, " Within the Hieron," or 
tatred precinct, has been by some preposterously rendered '* Jfitki*. 
the Temple." A Theatre WITHIN A TEMPLE ! ! ! 
(4) Trav. in Greece, p. 235. Oxf. 1776. 
(5) This is evident from the manner in which it is always mentioned 
by Pausanias, who speaks of the comparative magnificence ami archi- 
tectural skill shewn in other theatres, with reference to this of Poty- 
cietus in JZpidauria. Thus, when he is giving an account of |a theatre 
, he says of it, 0iTga i*n f'sas ?> Ka.ro. r* 'Eir/Jai/f / 
.I lf<y<tfi*v ri X<nr. Patisnn. Corinth, c. 29. p. 180. 
Ltps. 1696. 
