42 Dr. Kennepy Batwis’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
serves equally well to my present purpose, namely, that the Carians, under their 
ancient name of Leleges, inhabited the islands and were subject to Minos, but, in 
process of time, were expelled from their original seats by the Dorians and the 
Ionians, and migrated to the continent... This he gives as the tradition current 
among the Cretans themselves.* 
It should appear, then, that the Cretans of the age of Constantius were not 
behindhand with their progenitors in genealogical knowledge. It has been re- 
marked that the allusion here made savours much of the taste of Julian’s age, 
and on this, in particular, the conjecture has been founded that the name of that 
emperor should be restored in the sixth line; but this appears to be rather in- 
genious than solid ; instances without number might be cited of this taste for 
antiquarian allusion, which existed in all ages of the literature of Greece, and 
descended even to the Byzantine period. 
I now return to the inscription of which I have given a translation when 
commencing my notices of the Aphrodisian monuments, for the purpose of offer- 
ing one or two remarks. I have not met this in Mr. Fellows’ very ample col- 
lection, nor does it exist, I believe, in that of Professor Bockh. 
The government of Aphrodisias by Archons, a polity in remarkable agree- 
ment with their Cretan descent, is implied in the second line, as it is expressly 
mentioned in a titulus published both by Mr. Fellows and Professor Béckh, in 
which the following salutation occurs :} 
APXOYS3IN . KAI. TH . BOYAH. KAI. TQ . AHM©. XAIPEIN. 
Of these (the Archons) the unknown subject of this honorary titulus is de- 
nominated the Chief, as in the fourth line, he is styled APXINEQIIOIO2, 
that is, Chief of the Neopei. 
I have observed mention made of this corporation of the Neopcei in other 
inscriptions from this site. One, in a fragment of a sepulchral titulus which I 
copied from a slab of marble found by me in the upper course of a square en- 
closure outside the city wall, to the south-west. Another occurs in an inscription 
on a sarcophagus which Mr. Fellows has published in the second volume of his 
* Strabo reiterates this in xiv. 2. (Vol. iii. p. 208, Tau.) 
t See Travels, etc., vol. ii., Tit. xvi, p. 302. Béckhii Corp. Inser. n. 2743. 
