Note 71 — Chapter VIII · CADIZ.

Such were the outlooks, or Distegia, which were placed on the terraces of the Greeks; from such a one (μελάθρων ἐς διῆρες ἔσχατον) Antigone, in that beautiful episode which has been imitated in “Ivanhoe,” viewed the Pelasgian host, drawn up near the fountain of Dirce. These were, and are, distinguished from the terraces roofed with tiles. The Tuilleries of Athens were not for the common roofs, but for the Distegia, or double roofs, and for the temples. In Morocco also the mosques are tiled, and with gable roofs, while the houses are flat.