MYCEN.E. 499 
These were objects naturally striking the C ***P- 
attention in the noble prospect from the en- 
trance to the city ; and there could not have 
been an individual within the Theatre at Athen 
when this Tragedy was presented, who had 
ever visited Mycentz, that would not have been 
sensible of the taste and accuracy of Sophocles, 
in making those remarks. We may now see 
whether this Tumulus is not alluded to by 
Sophocles, and by Euripides, and its situation 
distinctly pointed out as being on the outside 
of the gates, according to the usual custom 
respecting Grecian sepulchres. But, previous 
to this, it will be necessary to state, that when 
Sophocles mentions the regal seat of the Kings of 
Mycence, he is not speaking of a single building 
answering to the vulgar notion of a house, but of 
the whole structure of the fortress, wherein they 
resided; a Citadel; resembling that of the 
Kremlin at Moscow, formerly inhabited by Russian 
sovereigns; or, like the Tower of our metro- 
polis, where the English monarchs once resided. 
It is in this sense that he uses the word 
(5} "Sufta, niXovibu* . Sophocl. Elect, v. 10. Port's, 1781. 
2w <f u wttr^iutv $uua. Ibid. v. 69. 
EJ raw TtWvi"jy ^aftar \lylelov rit&l ; Ibid. V. G63*. 
ni T&/vS' Ibid. v. 40. 
xaTaffrarrjv \'o[*.ui. Ibid. v. 72. 
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