53G PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP. There is still an antient paved road that con- 
ducted to the Citadel by a narrow entrance 
between rocks, so contrived as to make all who 
approached the gate pass through a defile that 
might be easily guarded. Within the Acropolis 
are the vestiges of buildings, perhaps the Hieron 
of FORTUNA ACR^EA, and of the DIOSCURI '; 
and below it is a fountain, seeming to correspond 
with that of STAZUSA, mentioned by Pausanias 
as near the gate*. The remains of a temple, built 
in a very massive style of structure, occurs on 
the western side of the village of Basilica ; and in 
passing thefosse of the Citadel to go towards the 
Theatre, which is beyond the Acropolis*, a sub- 
terraneous passage may be observed, exactly 
above which the Temple seems to have stood ; 
as if by means of this secret duct persons 
belonging to the sanctuary might have had 
ingress and egress to and from the Temple, 
without passing the gate of the Citadel. This 
was, perhaps, the identical place called Cosme- 
terium by Pausanias*, whence the mystic images 
(1) 'E Si r*i tun <xxireXu To%m it(i* \TTII cixtaLtHf, fj.tr a. Si ai/Ti 
Fausan. Cor. c. 7. p. 127. ed. JTu/tnii. 
(2) jlfif Si r* Jxh vtiyii ten, *- * > Ibid- 
(3) Pausanins says, wr ri iTX/. Ibid. 
(4) TauTfftia x*4' 'ixttfTti Irct tvxri if rt bitttitm Ix. ri 
KOIMHTHTIOT p%iv<ri. Ibid. 
