516 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP. This gate faces the north-west. After we 
-> had passed it, we followed the circuit made 
Mycenae, by the walls around the hill of the Citadel. 
These consist of huge unhewn masses of stone, 
so fitted and adapted to each other as to have 
given rise to an opinion that the power of man 
was inadequate to the labour necessary in 
building them. Hence the epithet of Cyclopean, 
bestowed upon them by different authors 1 . 
The Peribolus they inclose is oblong, and about 
three hundred and thirty yards in length. 
Upon the northern side are the remains of 
another portal, quite as entire as that we 
have already described, and built in the same 
manner ; excepting that a plain triangular mass 
of stone rests upon the lintel of the gateway, 
instead of a sculptured block as in the former 
Anrient instance. We saw within the walls of the 
cistern. Citadel an antient cistern, which had been 
hollowed out of the breccia rock, and lined 
with stucco. The Romans had no settlement at 
Mycence ; but such is the state of preservation 
(1) Kv*\Mftnti traXn (in Euripid. Hercule Furcnte}. 
0uu.i).n; (Iphigen. in /lul.} Kvx)iuri!a aiigarix TH'%* (in Stphscl. Elect.) 
KuaXwtrw* J xa.1 retur* ipya. MO.I Ktyovfn. Pausan. in Corinth, c. 16. 
p. 146. ed.Kuhnii. 
