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occurs in a third sepulchi'al inscription at Ince, which is not given here, 

 because of the bottom of the marble being broken off. The word is 

 rarely met with in these inscriptions. 



As to the amount of the fines, there appears no doubt. When the 

 Greeks wished to express thousands, they placed a stroke under the 

 letter denoting the units. Thus x/j (two) becomes, with the stroke 

 subjoined, ^/3 (two thousand denarii); ^c (five) becomes ^f (five thou- 

 sand denarii). In the present case the stroke has become obliterated 

 from the marble of Cacuchius. With respect to that of Ulpius, the 

 mode in which the stroke is made corresponds exactly with a fac- simile 

 given by Montfaucon, (in his Paleographia Grseca, page 158,) of an 

 inscription upon one of the Ancyra Marbles. Here this great antiquary 

 interprets x/B^) to mean two thousand five hundred denarii. 



So far our remarks are applicable to both inscriptions. The remarks 

 which follow are designed to point out some peculiarities in each. 



1st. In the one, the names Ulpius and Julius are Roman; that of 

 the wife, Tyche (or Fortune), is Greek. In the other, the proprietor 

 bore a most remarkable name, Cacuchius Eutactus (Ill-used Orderly, or 

 Tidy), peculiar, perhaps, to the cities of Ionia. Possibly the Scripture 

 name Eutychus and Eutactus may be the same, although Eutychus, 

 which sigm^e^ fortunate, is a very good and appropriate name. 



2. In the inscription of Cacuchius it is noted that a copy of it is 

 deposited in the Statehouse. Similar notices are observable in other 

 sepulchral inscriptions ; and such a registry would, doubtless, lead to 

 the recovery, in whole or part, of the fines to which those w^ho might 

 invade the sepulchre should render themselves liable. 



I am unable to make out the meaning of the two marks at the 

 beginning of the inscription of Cacuchius. In the other inscription 

 are some errors of the sculptor, eKON for GKONTOC, and TOPMHcei 

 for TOAMHCei. 



The word YHOCIAPXHC is not to be found in any of the lexicons, 

 neither is the word YnociA, which appears in one of the inscriptions 

 given by Sir Charles Fellowes, in his second volume, p. 270. 



For a further account of Smymaean or Ionian sepulchral inscriptions, 

 reference may be made to the following publications : — Graevii et 

 Gronovii Thesaurus, and Nova Supplementa, by Polenus ; Sponii Mis- 

 cellanea Erud. Antiquitatis ; Muratorii Novus Thesaurus; Marmora 

 Oxoniensia ; and Sir Charles Fellowes 's Excursions into Asia Minor. 



TKANSLATION OF INSCRIPTION No. I. 

 Cacuchius Eutactus has fitted up this Tomb for himself and Spouse, his 

 children and grand-children, and domestic kindred and freedraen, no other person 



