Note (return) — THE TEMPLE ON THE ACROPOLIS BURNT BY THE PERSIANS.

From the passage of the Neaera quoted above we know that the old orchestra could not have been in the sacred precinct of Dionysus Limnaeus, for this was opened but once in every year, on the 12th of Anthesterio, 193 while the Chytri and therefore ό επι Ληναίω αγών were held on the following day. This involves too that the Pithoigia as well as the "contests at the Lenaeum" could not have been celebrated in the sanctuary εν Λίμναις, though portions of each of these divisions of the Anthesteria were held in the Lenaeum, which contained the Limnaea hieron.