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that attest the former magnificence of the edifice to which they belonged, the 

 church of St. John. 



In the first of these, the name of the consular has been preserved, Flavius 

 Archelaus Claudianus, as also that of the person to whom the erection of the 

 statue had been confided, Glyko (or Glykis) Papias, whose rank as Bularch* is also 

 mentioned. 



The last cost me infinite pains to acquire, from its very elevated position, 

 and the inconvenient manner in which the builder had placed the stone on 

 which it had been engraved : I mean to explorers such as I am ; for his own exigen- 

 cies had compelled him to place the lines in a vertical position at the outer edge 

 of the building. To add to my dissatisfaction, it turned out, after all the trouble 

 I had taken to obtain possession of its contents, but a fragment, and that a 

 meagre one, of the original composition. Sufiicient, however, remained to direct 

 my subsequent researches to its probable import. A name has been most fortu- 

 nately preserved unmutilated, which is familiar to every reader of Claudian ; and 

 from the pages of his vindictive satire on the discarded favourite of Arcadius, I 

 have been enabled to fill up the imperfect outline which the quoin of St. John's 

 has supplied. 



The name here alluded to is Eutropius, one most convenient to the purpose 

 of the author of this epigraph, which was to bequeath to posterity a marble- 

 graven record in verse, of the courage and generalship of an officer whom that 

 courtier had employed in an important military operation. It occurs twice in 

 the course of the inscription, which was composed in lines alternately hexameter 

 and pentameter. Of eleven of these but the initial fragments remain, presenting 

 only the first, or (and this in two instances alone) the first and second feet. 



The historical fact which I brought to bear upon this monument, with a 

 view to its elucidation and, if possible, restoring it, was that which has been de- 

 tailed so amusingly and with such power of ridicule by Claudian, in the second 

 of his poems against Eutropius, namely, the ill-concerted expedition of his gene- 

 ral, the woolcomber Leo, against Trlbiglld, or as he is called by Claudian, Tar- 

 glbilus, the Ostrogothic leader, who had invaded Asia Minor, and was then 

 occupied in devastating Pamphylia, where he had taken up a disadvantageous 



* I have fully explained the import of this term (BovAajpijof) in the commentary subjoined to my 

 series of inscriptions of the Apocalyptic sites. 



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