course furnished with colonnades, which the climate rendered necessary, and partly with shops and stalls, partly with temporary booths of wickerwork (σκηναί, Harpocr. s. v. σκηνίτης; Demosth. de Cor. p. 284). Each of these parts was called a κύκλος. It is generally stated that this term was applied only to that division of the market where meat, fish, and such things were sold; but Becker has shown that it was used also for other parts of the market (Charikles, vol. i. pp. 268, 269). The several
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