Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . PLAN OF ARCADIAN OR MEGALOPOLITAN GATE. MESSENE. MESSENE, 339 picturesque structures of this class in I The northera i^.ate, leadinEj to Mecjalopolis in Ar- I cadii (Paub iv 33 i^3) ib one cf the fine t sjeti. PLAN OF THE RUINS OF Arcadian or Megalopolitan Gate,mens of Greek mihtary architecture in existence. I The road still leads through this pate into the circuitIts form is seen in the preceding plan. It is a small of the ancient city. The ruins of the towers, withfortress, containing double gates opposite to one i the interjacent curtain
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . PLAN OF ARCADIAN OR MEGALOPOLITAN GATE. MESSENE. MESSENE, 339 picturesque structures of this class in I The northera i^.ate, leadinEj to Mecjalopolis in Ar- I cadii (Paub iv 33 i^3) ib one cf the fine t sjeti. PLAN OF THE RUINS OF Arcadian or Megalopolitan Gate,mens of Greek mihtary architecture in existence. I The road still leads through this pate into the circuitIts form is seen in the preceding plan. It is a small of the ancient city. The ruins of the towers, withfortress, containing double gates opposite to one i the interjacent curtains, close to the gate on the .slopeanother, and connected by a circular court of 62 of Jlount Ithome, show this part of the fortification:,! feet in diameter. In front of the outer gate oneither side is a strong rectangular tower. Uponentering the court through the outer gate, there is aniche on each side for a statue, with an inscriptionover it. The one on the left hand is still legible,and mentions Quintus Plotius Euphemion as the re-storer (Bockh, Jnsci: No. 1460). Pausanias ( §3) notices in this gate a Hermes in the Atticstyle, which may possibly have stood in one of theseniches. Leake observes that the interior masonryof the circula
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