20 Dr. Kennepy Baiuie’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
“The custom of establishing sanctuaries in the Greek cities had degener- 
ated into a species of licentiousnesss ; the temples were crowded with slaves of 
the worst characters. Debtors were, to the injury of their creditors, allowed the 
same privilege, which was also shared even by persons suspected of capital 
crimes; nor did there exist any influence of sufficient strength to control the 
seditions which took place amongst the people, who shielded men’s enormities as 
they would guard the ceremonies of the gods. It was accordingly decreed, that 
the cities should send delegates with notification of their respective claims; and 
some forbore, of their own accord, to press rights which they had unjustly pre- 
ferred, whilst many relied on their superstitions, or their claims on the Roman 
people in consequence of services performed.’’* 
That the citizens of Teos were of the number of these last, there is every 
reason to conclude, and if so, that the very fragment before us was one of the 
jura here mentioned by the historian, or attestatory documents with which the 
delegates were required to come provided ; for Tacitus adds in the next section 
to that from which I have quoted, that the Ephesians, the Magnesians (of Sipy- 
lus,) the Aphrodisians, the Stratoniceans, the Hierocesareans, the Cyprians, and 
other states, complied with the wishes of the Senate, and sent deputies to Rome ; 
as also did the people of Samos and the Coans, in the following year ; and of 
these last express mention is made, as I have stated, in the fifteenth, perhaps also 
in the eighth line of this Teian inscription. 
On the whole, I am disposed to rank this titulus in the same class with those 
which the learned Chishull published upwards of a century since, from the papers 
* « Crebrescebat enim Gracas per urbes licentia atque impunitas asyla statuendi; complebantur 
templa pessimis servitiorum ; eodem subsidio obzerati adyersum creditores, suspectique capitalium 
criminum receptabantur. Nec ullum satis validum imperium erat coercendis seditionibus populi, 
flagitia hominum, ut cerimonias deum, protegentis. Igitur placitum, ut mitterent civitates jura 
atque legatos. Et quedam, quod falso usurpaverant, sponte omisere; multe vetustis superstitioni- 
bus aut meritis in populum Romanum fidebant.” Tacit. Annal. w, s., c. 60. 
On this subject of Asylia the learned reader may consult with advantage Spanheim, De Usu et 
Prestantia Numm. Dissert. ix. pp. 667, ss. wherein he treats of the various Asyla amongst the 
ancients, their prescribed limits, and the true import of the titles éepa/ and govao: conferred on 
various cities. 
Eckhel professes to follow Spanheim in his chapter on this subject, vol. iv. pp. 306, sqq. 
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