144 Dr. Kennedy Bailie's Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 



It was this occurrence of a part of the word ap^ovra in the monument now 

 under consideration, which induced me to suppose it of Athenian origin. But 

 as the title in question was one of which Hadrian was deservedly proud, as it was 

 a purely honorary distinction, there may hardly seem to exist sufficient reason 

 for considering it as designative of place, at least in any such sense as to fix that 

 of the monument. It is quite as reasonable to suppose, that the gratitude of the 

 people of Stratoniceia, whose city had received substantial benefits from Hadrian, 

 and had been dignified with his name, would lead them to select whatever title 

 they judged would be most agreeable to that emperor's vanity.* 



The erector of this statue (for the marble I saw is a fragment of what had 

 once been a pedestal), was Julia Menylleina ; and her special motive has been 

 duly recorded, namely, to express her gratitude to Hadrian for his private acts 

 of liberality towards her father, Julius Paterculus. The inscription concludes thus : 



rAIOYIOYAIOYHATEPKAOYnATPOSIAIOYA lAIONf EYEP- 



PETHN. 



I should have remarked, in connexion with this subject, viz., the intercourse 

 in kind offices which subsisted between Hadrian and the citizens of Stratoniceia, 

 the designation of the latter in the first of these two inscriptions : they are styled 

 Hadrianopolitan Stratoniceans. Their city was one of the considerable num- 

 ber which, as having experienced their master's bounty, he had decreed should 

 perpetuate the memorial thereof in their names. Thus, to cite another instance, 

 Athens, at least that section which included within its precincts his gigantic 

 structure, the Olympium. But in these, as in other instances, first associations 

 overruled emotions of a more recent date, and their inhabitants soon recalled 

 the ancient designations. In the case before us we observe a sort of transition 

 state ; a species of compromise effected between the old and the new. The 

 additional title may have been imposed also for the sake of distinction. | 



c. Having travelled so far out of my course — for these inscriptions interfere 

 with the regular series of the other from the Apocalyptic sites — I may as well 

 conclude my notice of them with one which I had from the mosque Yeni-Oglu, 

 formerly a Greek church. It is evidently of the Byzantine era ; and appears, 



* Anc. Univ. History, ii. 6, p. 503. t Or lAIHN. 



J 1 have enumerated in my Commentary ten cities which bore the name of Hadrianopolis. 



