Note 627 — Chapter IV · THE SCENERY

[Exon, Hermathena, 1900, pp. 132 ff.; Navarre, Revue des Études Anciennes, 1901, p. 102. The words are περιστρεφόμενον, στραφέντα, and the variant ἐγκύκλημα (compared with ἐγκύκλιος, &c., of rotatory movement): see above, p. 201. Exon also doubts if ἀνοίγεται ἡ σκηνή could be used of opening a door for the ἐκκύκλημα to pass, and thinks that the portion of the back-scene which formed part of the ἐκκύκλημα on his theory was by the side of the door, and that there was a similar apparatus by each door. But this is pressing the meaning of ἀνοίγεται ἡ σκηνή too closely. The words of Pollux, however, do suggest that the ἐκκύκλημα could be adapted to any of the three doors.]