of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 43 
travels in these parts.* Both instances tend to prove that the officers here men- 
tioned possessed, not merely, as the etymology of the name would seem to indi- 
cate, a control over the construction and repair of temples, but also over the 
hereditaments or estates which were applied to the support of the sacerdotal 
establishments. Thus, in the titulus last-mentioned, the estate of the deceased 
person was to lapse from his heirs to the goddess Aphrodite (that is, to the sup- 
port of her temple and worship) on supposition of their failing to use all due 
precaution for preserving his sepulchre from violation, and the officers who were 
(of course, virtute offici:) to take the necessary legal steps, were the Neopeei. 
These functionaries are also mentioned by Aristotle,t at least im terms, for 
there being most probably a Lacuna in the passage to which I refer, leaves it a 
matter of uncertainty whether his vaozrovoé mean the builders of the temple, or 
officers whose duty it was to guard the sacred utensils from depredation. In 
either sense, however, there appears to be but an identity in the name, as the 
veorrotot of Aphrodisias were evidently intrusted with extensive and important 
powers over the funds which were devoted to religious purposes. Yet this might 
also have been connected with the guardianship of the temple-furniture. 
I pass now to another honorary inscription, which I copied from the wall on 
the east side. I select it for consideration at present from its containing notices 
of some important offices, one connected with the public games, the other with 
judicial functions. 
The following is the translation of this titulus : 
The Senator, 
Tiberius Claudius Attalus, 
Son of Lucius Antonius 
Claudius Domitius 
5. Diogenes, High Priest of Asia, 
And Nomothetes: 
The benefactor 
Of his native city. 
* See Tit. xli. p. 40. 
+ Vid. Rhetorica, yol. iv. p. 146, Ed. Bipont. The Athenian yeo@vaaxss mentioned by Arch- 
bishop Potter in his enumeration, b. ii. c. 3, (vol. i. p. 243, Edit. Dunb.) seem to have been the 
yeowowoi of Aristotle, and to correspond to the office of Sacristan in the Romish Church. 
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