Word: semicircular
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...theatre consists of three main parts: the auditorium, the orchestra, and the stage buildings. The seats for the spectators covered the slope of the hill, in semicircular rows. Aisles divided the auditorium into thirteen wedges and two-thirds of the distance to the top was a semi-circular passageway or "Diazoma." The upper rows of seats were hewn from the stone of the hillside, the lower were of limestone from the Peiraeus. The front row consisted of sixty-seven "thronoi," heavy stone seats with backs, the middle one being used by the chief priest of Dionysus. The orchestra...
...while that of the long corridor will be of maple. This floor will contain six spacious recitation-rooms, suitably fitted up with platforms, blackboards four feet in height, seats for the students, umbrella-racks, etc. At the north extremity of the corridor will be a large lecture-hall, with semicircular rows of seats, which will accommodate comfortably between three hundred and four hundred students. This floor will also contain six professors' retiring-rooms, each of which will contain suitable toilet appliances and other appurtenances of comfort and enjoyment. These private retiring-rooms will be also supplied with open fireplaces...