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 906 ABOOS. hotrerar, emusdenUe Tcoliga of other lines <£ mH, of masuvB Cjclopian sbiKtan, on tho oAa and tiue of tbg bill conincting Uw dtadal with the loirar Iowa." (Man, ml. u. p. 184.) Enripidn, ia moiB tbu one puuge, iUndm to th« C}^[Ban walla rf Algtn, ('tify'ii. Ira TilxT A<li™ KunAciwi' obparia H,u»niu. Troad. 1 087 ; "Afpyim Ttixn iml KiiiiXvirifu ird^ii', ifere. JW, IS.} It mppesn {nun the incient inbetiuctioiii tbiit the (ncieat kto- polii, like the modem citadel, consiited of u outer mil or ranputiiiui of luiiiDerkeepor csstle. The letter occuiud a sqnan of iboot 200 feet. From either end of the outer fortiGoIIcai, the dtf Willi majbelnced m the dcKcnt cf the hill. Th^ are marked with a black line in the plan od the pre- ceding page. The dotted linei indicate the [Biibible direntioa of the walls, of which then are no muuiu. As no renuuna of the oil; wall) can be tnc«l in the plain, it ia difficult to fbnn an eatimate of the dimensiona of the ancieDt dty ; bat Leake oodjk- tares that it coold not have bem 1«b thaa S o^ea We learn fmn Livy that Argue had two dtadela (" nam daai [arces] habent A^" LIt. hmt. 25). Thia aecond diadel waa prubibl; bitoated at the ef- Iremitj of tha bill, which fbnna the oorth-eutcm projection of the moantain of Lariaaa, and which risei to abont one-third of the height of the latter. The ridge connectiliK thu hill with the Lanisa ia called Udraa {dtipi,-) hj Pausaniaa (ii. 24. § 1). The aecond citadel waj called Aans ('Amtit, Hut. Fyrrh. 32, Clam. 17, ai), aince a ahield waa au»- pended here ai the insignia of the town ; whence the prorerb it riir ir 'Apyii iffrlBa uaSittAr. (Z«- nob. Ti. 52; Pint. Proc. AkmmL «; Suid.j MUI- ler, Doriaatj App. vi. § 9.) There an conuderable nmains of the theatre, which waa excavated on the eouthem alope of the Lariaaa. In front of the weelera wing of the thealie there are aome brick ruins of the Roman period. At the BODth-weetem end cf the Lsiisaa then are re. maiaa of an aqueduct, which maj be traced two miles bejonJ the village of Belisai to the NW. The Agora appears to have atood nearlj in the aeutre of the ciC;. In the middle of the Agora waa the monmnent of Prrrhus, ■ building of while marble; on which wen Bculptured the anna vrom bj thia monarch in hie wara, and icme figures of elephants. It was erected oa the ipot wJiera the body of PTrrhua waa burnt; bat his remuns were depoeiled in the neigbbooring temple of Demeter, where be died, and bia shield was offiied above the entrance. (Pans. ii. 21. g 4.) A street named Cocio (KoiAn, Paua. ii. 23. § 1) appears to have led from the Agora to the LmUl, the aacent to nhich was bj the ridge of DdiM. At the foot of the hill Deiras was a subterraneons building, which ia said to have once contained the biauu chainber (i xaAnotii ddAofiot) in which Danae waa cot;fined by her father Acrisiiu. (Paoa. ii. 23. § 7 ; comp. Soph. Aniig. 9*6; comp. Hot. Carra. iii. 16. 1.) The gymna- aom, called CTi.jUiABia (KuX^paCii), from the un of Stbendus, was situated onliide the city, at a dis- tance of less than 300 paces according la Utj, (Paua. iL 32. SB; Lir. ixxiv. 36 ; Pint. CJ«Ha. 1 7.) The fata which led to it waa called Uiamperea {HiMfimfit'). It waa Ihnugb thia gate that Pjrrhoa euKred the dty on the night c* his liealh. (PluL Pfirk. 33.) The kinK fell near the sepolchn of Licymnius in a street leading from the agon to the (Plutiyria*; Paua. u. 22. § 8.) ABG05. The principal gat« of ArgaainitartohaTsbeai: I. The gate of Eilrithyia, so ciJU fnxu a na^. booiing temple of thia goddess, leading to Ujcenie and Cteonae. (Pans, il IS. § 3) 2. The gale of Deiraa (at nal al wjAt Tf AivA), leading la Uantineia. In the ridge, called Deiru, Leaki oh- aerved an opening in the Line of the aocjsnt walk, which marka predaelj the pontkn ff this gale. (Pans. iL 2S. § 1 .) 3. The gate Inding to Tegei. (Pauj. iL £4. 1 S.) 4. The gate leading to Temc- nium. a. Tbs gate DiampeiBa, leadmg to TujnK, Nanplia and Eiadaorna. G. A gale leading to He Heranun. (Bespectiiig the topognphj of Argga, see Leake, Morm, tA a. p. 394, seii.) It remaina to speak of the nte of tb* Benenoi, which kmg eluded the reacKrchea of all trarellen in Greece. Its lemiuns wen discovered for the £nt time in 1331, by Geoeral Oonion, the camaander of the Greek fbrces in the Peloponnesos. Piuianiia describea (ii. 17. g I) tlM Heraeum m utnated H the dialance of IS atadia from HyceuK, to IIk Irft of the nute bctvreen that oity and Jiign, on the lower declivities of a monnlun called EnboH; md he adds, tlut ou one side of it &iwed the E^llierion, and on the other flowed the Aalericn, which disap- pearTd in ni abysa. " These delaila an all irrificd on the gimnd etplond by Qeneral Gordoa. It ii a rocky height, lisinK, in a somewhat iaialaltd hnn, from the base of me of the highest maUDtiins Ihit bound the plain towards the east, ^tant ibcot two English mikta from Hycenae, which florreapouls nearlv to the 1 S atadia of PausaniH.' (Unre, vd. ii. p. 178.) Tbe remaina of the temple are ditUDt from Atgos between S and 6 miles, which comapDid to the 45 stadia of Uemdotua (i. 31). Stnbo (viiL p. 368) saya that the temple waa distant 40 stadia from Argos,and 10 fioni Uyceiiaa,but each afthne measarementa is below the truth. The old Hen«iin was burnt in the ninth year of the PsloponDeuu war (b. c. 423), by tJie negligence nf the prieslos (Thuc iv. 133), wbeicapon Kupolemua wm em- ployed to erect the new temple, de^ribed by PaDfl- Tbe n a little b> but the auketmcttons of the bitcr vrere still seen by Pausaniaa (ii. 17. § 7). Tbe gtUar triangular jJalform, with its apel pointing towards Mount Euboea, and its base towards Aigca. The surface is divided into thm eeplamdaa or ter- races, rising in gradatluu one tbove the other, froui tbe kww to the npper extremity. The central in*