Note 22 — Chapter III
Reading edition
Iliad XVIII. 503
οἱ δὲ γέροντες εἵατ' ἐπὶ ξεστοῖσι λίθοις ἱερῷ ἐνὶ κύκλῳ.
The stone seats are mentioned only in the description of a judicial assembly: but all assemblies met, there is no doubt, in the same place.