S I C Y O N. 537 
were annually brought forth in the solemn 
procession to the Temple of Bacchus, situate 
near the Theatre and the Stadium. Some of the 
remains enumerated in the list may be those of 
Venetian edifices; as, for example, the ruin of 
the Palace: the palaces of antient Sicyon being 
highly splendid, and all built of marble. Indeed 
an expression used by Pausanias seems to imply 
that the Acropolis, as it existed in his time 5 , was 
not the most antient Citadel. The sea is at the 
distance of about a league from Basilica ; but 
the commanding eminence upon which the Ruins 
are situate affords a magnificent view of the 
Corinthian Gulph and of all the opposite coast 
of Phocis. There is, however, no part of the 
antient city where this prospect is more striking 
than from the THEATRE* This structure is 
almost in its entire state; and although the 
notes we made upon the spot do not enable us 
to afford a description of its form and dimensions 
equally copious with that already given of the 
famous Theatre of Pohjcletus in Epidauria, yet this 
of Sicyon may be considered as surpassing every 
other in Greece, in the harmony of its propor- 
tions, in the costliness of the workmanship, in 
the grandeur of the Coilon, and in the stupendous 
(5) 'E> Ss rn ?> 'A*g9TXs/, *. r. A. Palis, ibid. 
