of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 41 
in Crete, and that he enjoyed the title mentioned in-the inscription just in the 
same way as the Presidents of the kocva in (for instance) Bithynia and Mysia 
did those of Bithynarch and Mysiarch.* 
These titles, like some amongst ourselves, were enjoyed by the personages 
who had been advanced to them even after the periods of their service. The 
official became an honorary distinction, and certainly well-merited, for the office 
brought with it no emolument to counterbalance the enormous expense which 
the discharge of its duties entailed. 
I mention this, as it tends in a great measure to obviate an objection to the 
sacerdotal sense of the term, arising from the declining fortunes of Paganism at 
this epoch. 
The Cretarch erects this monument in recognition of the ancient relation- 
ship which subsisted between the citizens of Aphrodisias and his countrymen. 
This respect to the ties of blood was one of the amiable traits in the ancient 
Greek character, and led very often to more important results than the erection 
of a monument or the repairing a fortification. Historical proofs of this will, 
doubtless, crowd on the recollection of my learned auditory, and save me the 
necessity of reference. Of the proofs from inscriptions, I could not present a more 
remarkable one than I have already done in the instance of my first titulus from 
the site of Teos, in which it is evidently made the basis of one of the most im- 
portant privileges which it was in the power of one state to confer upon another, 
the right of sanctuary. The same feeling pervades also the coordinate tituli 
which Chishull has published. 
The Cretan origin of the Carians is expressly stated as the opinion of some, 
by Pomponius Mela.f Strabof writes of the Caunii, inhabitants of a district of 
Caria, that their account of themselves was, that they came from Crete, and 
in this he but reiterates the testimony of Herodotus.¢ The historian, it is 
true, dissents from the tradition, but his statement in the preceding chapter 
* See note on the fifth line of the third of this series of inscriptions, p. 46, infr. 
+ “Caria sequitur; habitant incerte originis, (alii indigenas, sunt qui Pelasgos, quidam Cretas 
existimant,”) ete. De Situ Orbis, i. 16, (p. 25, Bip.) 
t Geograph. xiy. 2. (Vol. iii. p. 198, Tau.) Compare Plin. y. 29, 1; xxxv. 36, s. 
§ Vid. i. 172. 
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