of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 37 
discover no traces of it, unless the TOY before SEBAZTOY (which probably 
was the article) be regarded as its final syllable. 
Independently of this, it appears to me that to grace Constantius with the 
epithet wnconquered, or invincible, after his disastrous encounters with his 
Persian antagonist, would seem to imply a servility of adulation almost incon- 
ceivable, even in an Asiatic. 
If now we pass to the sixth line, we find a remarkable Lacuna. The name 
of the Cesar has been evidently erased, the space which it occupied presenting 
now a somewhat deep and continuous hollow in the tablet. The questions 
which arise here are, which of the Czsars had experienced this indignity, the 
motive which inspired the act, and its probable date. 
My answer to the first of these is, unquestionably the younger, who bears in 
the annals of our faith a worse than equivocal reputation, the celebrated Ju- 
lianus. The epithets which are here bestowed suit much better the conqueror 
of the Alemanni, than the morose and imbecile Gallus, to which it has been in- 
geniously added, that the antiquarian allusion at the close of the inscription 
savours of the learning which Julian cultivated and patronized. His brother, it 
is true, had been disgraced and virtually deposed, the fourth year after his 
investiture with the Cesarean purple, and finally expiated his misconduct with 
his life by order of Constantius, at the close of the year 354, A.C., between 
which period and the nomination of Julian in his place, some courtier or emissary 
of the Augustus may have studied to prove his loyalty by wreaking his revenge 
on fallen greatness. Nothing was more usual under the imperial dynasty : 
* * * * Sejanus ducitur unco 
Spectandus: gaudent omnes * * * ¥ 
Turba Remi sequitur fortunam, ut semper, et odit 
Damnatos*. *« * * * x * * * 
The probabilities, however, appear to me to be on the other side, more 
particularly as inspection of existing monuments fully proves that the Christian 
population of Tauropolisf was actuated with a most fervent zeal for the religion 
* Juvenal. Sat. x. 66, 73. 
+ This name occurs in Stephanus of Byzantium, De Urbibus, pp. 689, 759. Also in the titulus 
to which I have already referred as published by Prof. Boeckh and Mr. Fellows, not. supr. p. 30. 
The Christians improved additionally on this more recent name, having changed it to STAYPO- 
