of the Qrceco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 125 



shewed great judgment in thus enforcing its provisions by an appeal to the 

 religious usages of those who were the undoubted founders of the Greek mytho- 

 logical system. 



I am now conducted to the second of these tituli, which is, as I have already 

 observed, decapitated. Part, however, of the preamble remains, which was con- 

 ceived in the same spirit with that of the foregoing. The observance of the 

 Artemisiac festival is enforced by an appeal to the piety and the devotion of their 

 predecessors; and then the decree concludes with consecrating certain days, 

 doubtless, of the month Artemision, perhaps indeed the entire thereof, to the 

 solemnities of that festival, during which Armistices (e/cexet/j/ai) in particular 

 were to be observed. We are further informed, that this was a decree of a 

 grand convention, {wavqyvpLs), the same which Thucydides terms a synodos,* 

 and the whole concludes with the names of the Prostates, or president of the con- 

 vention, and of the Agonothetes, or director of the games. f These are, Titus 

 Aelius Marcianus Priscus, and Titus Aelius Priscus. 



The next inscription, which also has been mutilated, comprises the latter half 

 of a resolution or decree of a Panegyris in favour of some distinguished citizen, 

 ordaining a statue (termed in the conclusion TLfxi]) to be erected in his honour. 

 This is prefaced with an enumeration of his public services in the following 

 instances ; in matters which related to the panegyrical assembly, and the 

 solemnities of the sacred month ; in the establishment of what is here termed 

 the Artemisiac Judgment {rj dpTefiia-iaK^ Kpiats), by which I understand either 

 the games themselves, or the court for the regulation of their details, over which 

 the Asiarch for the time being presided ; in augmentation of the prizes of the 

 Athletes ; lastly, in the erection of statues in honour of the successful candidates. 



The only name preserved in this titulus is that of the individual to whom 

 the convention had confided the office of providing for the erection of the statue, 

 viz., L. Faenius Faustus. It might indeed be supposed that this individual had 

 undertaken the office, of himself, and at his private cost ; but I choose rather 

 to think that he was the agent of the Panegyris, notwithstanding the use of 

 dvaa-TTjcravTOs, not €7n/jLeXr]deuTOs rrjs dvaaracreco^, as in an inscription of a si- 

 milar purport which I copied at Philadelphia. 



• Hist. iii. 104, fcty»x„ |iroS<.{ tS> iuiui. t Hist. i. 127; ii. 179; vi. 127. 



