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



The Continental philologists, particularly those of Germany, have long since 

 devoted their attention, proverbially so unwearied, to the elucidation of these 

 * remains. Their profound and exact learning has contributed in a pre-eminent 

 degree to its establishment, as a most valuable and interesting department of 

 literature. They have travelled with the zeal, and deciphered with the acumen, of 

 devoted students ; or from the professor's chair have poured fresh streams of 

 light on the sense and construction of the monumental language. I here refer 

 especially to the Germans ; and, for evidence of what I state, I deem it sufficient 

 to mention the names of Thiersch and Creuzer, of Miiller and Bockh. The 

 " Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum," of the last of these scholars, will long re- 

 main a monument of his industry, learning, and profound research ; it affords, 

 at the same time, a convincing demonstration of the utility of this branch of 

 philological science ; for by his exact acquaintance with it, he has been enabled 

 to clear up many points of extreme interest in the social economy of the ancient 

 inhabitants of Greece, which had been involved in much obscurity before. It 

 has supplied him with an extensive and a solid basis for the construction of his 

 most valuable work, " Uber die Staatshaushaltung der Athener," an attentive 

 perusal of which is of such essential importance in the investigation of the Attic 

 monuments, and the study of the Attic literature. 



To the third of the abovementioned names, the deceased and lamented 

 Miiller, I cannot refrain from paying the tribute of a well-merited eulogium. 

 He also was distinguished amongst the foremost in this, as well as in other de- 

 partments of Greek learning. With the genuine ardour of a Philellenist, he 

 visited the shores of Greece, penetrated into her territory, mixed with her 

 children, disinterred from the sepulchres in which they had lain so long en- 

 tombed, the sculptured monuments of her pristine magnificence, and gave them 

 once more meaning and life. I shall not soon forget the impressions which were 

 made upon me when visiting one of his favourite scenes. It was at Castri, the re- 

 presentative of the ancient Delphi. I was conducted by his host to the site of 

 the ApoUoneum, and within an enclosed space to which he directed my attention^ 

 on the very ground of the Peribolus, I found ranged the huge masses of en- 

 graved and sculptured blocks, which by Miiller's perseverance had been laid 

 open to view. Here was labour for months ; I might say more truly, for years ; 

 for the entire extent was one continued series of engraved characters ; the re- 



