540 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, into the semi-circular cavity of a Theatre; the 
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t _^_' . entrances to the area, included between both, 
being formed with great taste and effect at the 
two sides or extremities of the semicircle. The 
antient masonry appears in the front-work so 
placed. The length of the whole area equals 
two hundred and sixty-seven paces ; the width 
of the advanced bastion thirty-six paces ; and 
its height twenty-two feet six inches. In front 
of the projecting rampart belonging to the 
outer extremity of the Stadium, and at a short 
distance below it, in the plain, are also the 
Temple of remains of a Temple; completing the plan of 
this part of the antient city ; which was here 
terminated, on its western side, by three magnifi- 
cent structures, a Theatre, a Stadium, and a 
Temple ; as it was bounded towards its eastern 
extremity by its Acropolis. We can be at no 
loss for the name of this Temple, although 
nothing but the ground-plot of it now remain : 
it is distinctly stated by Pausanias to have been 
the Temple of Bacchus, which occurred beyond 
the Theatre to a person coming from the Citadel ' ; 
and to this Temple were made those annual 
processions before alluded to, which took place 
(1) Miri Si ra Slttr^n, Aioiufoo t't *<n. Pans. Cor. C. 7. p. 127. td. 
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