Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

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The hill might also have been called Aspis from its shape and ap-
pearance, which is that of a shield.

The summit of this hill is now the site of a chapel. To the south
of this, a little way down the hill, subterraneous passages may be
found, covered like the galleries of Tiryns with approaching stones.
It is possible these may have originally served as cisterns, for they are
at present entirely below the soil. The form is exactly similar to those
in the citadel of Mycenae, and they are like them only at present vi-
sible in places where the upper stones does not unite. There was in
ancient times a palace at Argos, the walls of which were remarkably
strong, and supposed to have been built by the Pelopidae. Euripides
Orestes.

From the Cilarabus a street called Coele ran toward the spot
where the Phoronean hill joined the rock of Larissa, under a monastery
curiously perched upon the precipice toward the north east.

The name Coele on the hollow could not so well apply to any other
situation in the city.

At the extremity of this street, must have been a gate, because it
was the natural way to Lyrceia and Orneae, and still continues to be so.

This was probably the gate Deiras, for Pausanias having passed
the temple of Juno Acraea, seems to have turned out of the way to