-22 Dr. Kennepy Batuie’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
' 5. [To persons] of the rural classes, or [to any one of the class 
of citizens, whoever he may be, who yields obedience ] 
To the common [laws which are in force regulating the right 
Of sanctuary, ] who may have had recourse to it, 
{ An altar,] whereon he may sit ; as also to those * * 
10. * * * # * * * * * * * * whose supreme magistrates allow the benefit 
Of their celebrated [sanctuary of * « * * * *] to all such 
Of the Agrigentines as have incurred the penalty of the law; 
[As also to * * + * * * * * *] the son of Agelaon, the Delphian ; 
[ Moreover, it hath appeared conformable] to the laws 
15. [Of the city, that immunity, and the right of public entertainment, | should be granted 
To * « * * * and that « * *« * * the son of Astyanax, who is himself a Coan, 
And a descendant of the Polyrrhenians 
[Should be invested with the same rights * + * * * *] 
There are many other observations which it would be requisite to offer in or- 
der to a more complete elucidation of this remarkable titulus ; but as these prin- 
Additional probability is imparted to this conjecture from the circumstance of Delphi being 
evidently referred to in the twelfth line, between which shrine and the Agrigentines we have the 
explicit testimony of Aelian that intercourse subsisted. See Var. Hist. ii, 33. 
But a principal difficulty arises from the orthography here adopted, ATTPATAN. I do not speak 
of the Doric form, because the titulus bears evidence of its having been composed in that dialect. 
Thus we have AOOHMEN in the thirteenth line, as in the titulus respecting the Arcades, in 
Chishull’s collection, vol. vi. 2, p. 118, But the usual form was AKPATA®, whence arose ATPATA3. 
See Eckhel. D. NV. V. vol. i. p. 191. We may, however, suppose AKTPALTAE to have been a 
legitimate orthography, whence ATTPATA® may have arisen, as from EKTONOS, EITONOS, of 
which we haye an example in this very inscription, in the sixteenth line. 
To account for ATTPATAN being used as an adjective, that is, for ATTPATANTINON, or a 
substantive, for ATTPATANTA, is yet more perplexing 5 unless, indeed, in the latter case, we may be 
warranted in supposing that either the engraver of the titulus nodded over his task, or the traveller 
who committed it to his note-book, neither of which classes of literary aspirants is, as I can assure 
my readers, invariably exempt from error. 
On the whole, I should rather be disposed to reject ATTPAPAS as a noun adjective, and con- 
clude that the genuine reading here was ATTPATANTA. The omission of the final vowel, at least, 
may very naturally be accounted for by its commencing the following word. 
I have inserted in my translation mention of the Asylum of Hercules, in particular, from the 
passage in Cicero, In Verrem, ii. 4, 43. To collect this, however, with certainty, is, in the pre- 
sent state of the inscription, impossible; the sanctuaries of Asculapius, which are mentioned also 
by Cicero, and of the Atabyrian Jupiter, possess an equal claim to notice. 
