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the monument of the sons of ^Egyptus, on the left- CHAP. 
hand side of his road, until he arrives (gV 
upon the summit called Larissa, where he finds 
the temples of Jupiter Larissceus and of Minerva. 
And in a subsequent part of his description, 
speaking of the roads from Argos to Mantin<ea 6 , 
and to Lyrcea" 1 , he says they began from the gates 
near Diras; consequently, the Oracular Temple 
must have been lower than the summit, although 
upon the hill of the Acropolis. With so much 
information, and some of the monuments yet 
remaining in Argos, it would not be difficult for 
a traveller, having leisure and opportunity, to 
complete a plan of the antient city. This our 
time would not permit ; but we ascertained 
some of the antiquities : and first the THEATRE, 
upon the south-eastern side of the hill of the 
Acropolis; one of the principal objects no- 
ticed by Pausanias upon entering the city. 
Some of the SEPULCHRES also may be ob- 
served. 
The THEATRE is a very remarkable structure. Theatre. 
As usual, it is entirely an excavation of the 
(6) Pausan. Corinth, c. 25. p. 167- 
(7) Ibid. 
