TITHOREA. 279 
were however then visible, and the Periholus of chap. 
VII. 
the antient Forum^. We did not find the ,- / 
Theatre ; which must be attributed entirely to 
our want of proper observation ; because this, 
of all other things, is the most likely to remain. 
But we found, what we should least have Antiqui- 
ties of 
expected to see remaining, namely, the Forlm Tithorea. 
mentioned by Pausanias. It is a square struc- 
ture, built in the Cyclopean style, with large 
masses of stone ; but laid together with areat 
evenness and regularity, although without any 
cement ; the work being not so antient as the 
architecture of Argos, of Tiryns, or of Mycence. 
The walls of the city were executed in the 
same manner; and they were fortified with 
mural turrets, as at Platcea. The other memora- Other 3/#. 
bilia 01 liTHOREA, in the time of Pausanias^, 
were ^Grove, consecrated to Mmerta, containing 
her Temple (yuog) and statue; also a monument 
(y,vrtf^cc) to the memory of Antiope and P hocus. 
At the distance of eighty stadia from Tithorea 
was the Temple of Esculapius* \ and at the 
distance oi forty stadia from this temple there 
was a Periholus, containing an Adytum, sacred 
(3) Pausan. ibid. 
(3) Ibid. (4) IbiJ. 
