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[266] ἔνθα δέ, ‘there again is their place of assembly, round about the fair precinct of Poseidon.’

ἀμφίς is used rather than “περί”, because the Posideion is not in the centre of the “ἀγορά”, like a garden in the middle of a square, but it breaks the continuity of the “ἀγορά”, which would otherwise stretch right across the “εἰσίθμη”, and thus the “ἀγορά” is strictly on both sides of the Posideion. It is ‘set with huge stone-blocks, deep-bedded.’

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