See Dyer, on the Choral Dancing of the Greeks,—Classical Museum, No. IX. p. 229.
Böckh and Donaldson, in their editions of the Antigone. Berlin, 1843, p. 280. London, 1848. Introduction, p. xxix.
I read ἐισόδῳ, not (ε)ξόδῳ, as it is in Matthiae, which is either a misprint, or a mistake in the writer, as the quotation immediately following proves.
This is Müller’s view in Eumenides, § 21.
It may be as well here, for the sake of some readers, to remark that the orchestra, or dancing place (for so the word means), was that part of the ancient theatre which corresponds to the modern Pit. For a minute description of the ancient stage, the reader must consult Donaldson’s Greek Theatre, c. VII.