178 RUINS OF CHiERONEA. 
CHAP, wide behind each row of seats, for the feet of 
■ the spectators ; besides fourteen inches in front, 
for the stone benches; making a total of two 
feet eight inches for the width of every seat. 
The Proscenium , of this Theatre, at Chceronhay 
still remains : it is forty-eight paces in width. 
Mropoiis. The ACROPOLIS is abovc the Theatre: the road 
leading to it is cut in the side of the rock. Like 
the j4cro-Corinthus, it covers the top of a lofty 
precipice. This precipice is mentioned by 
Pausanias ' ; and yet it is remarkable, that neither 
this writer, nor Strabo^, who also notices the 
city, make any mention of the Theatre. " Above 
the^city," says Pausanias % " is a precipice called 
Petrachus." Here was preserved a small 
image of Jupiter*. The very antient walls of 
this citadel yet remain all around the summit, 
flanking the edges of the craggy precipice : they 
are of massive but regular workmanship, and 
offer an astonishing monument of the perse- 
verance and enterprising labours of the antient 
inhabitants. 
(1) Boeotica, p. 793. ed. Kuhnii. 
(2) Strabonis Geog- lib. ix. p. 600. ed. Oxon. 
(3) 'EfTi Si ixtQ rnf v'oXii x^nfiicf Utr^itx'i iiaXevfiHios. Pans. Bceot. 
c. 41. p. 797. 
(4) Ibid. 
