52 Dr. Kennepy Batute’s Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments 
It thus appears to have been a testimony on the part of the municipal authori- 
ties of Aphrodisias in honour of the husband and wife, with whom appears to have 
been associated another Metrodorus, who had not as yet deceased. The name of 
this last appears, at least in great part, upon the tablet, but from his not paying 
due attention to it, Mr. Fellows has been forced to offer the following translation 
of the second line, The Council and People honoured, even after he departed, 
Metrodorus, etc.; as though posthumous honours were things of rare occurrence 
in ancient states. 
Ere I pass from this titulus I beg to direct my learned audience to what ap- 
pears to me to be an idiom of singular beauty in its language. I have observed it 
in Dio, Herodian, Strabo, and Polybius; amongstthe Attic writers, in Lycurgus.* 
The words which I have translated the deceased Metrodorus, are literally, Me- 
trodorus who hath exchanged, namely, the present for another state of being. 
This is the form used by Polybius. In the others the word Biov is most generally 
annexed. MeradAaooev tov Biov! How superior to the host of other ex- 
pressions by which death is denoted! It carries the thought beyond the point 
where these for the most part leave it, the present world, its employments, and 
its distinctions: it expresses death by life; mortality by the existence which 
supersedes it, and reverses its doom. 
This reminds me that I have yet another class of tituli, which in Aphrodisias 
are very numerous, and afford much valuable information to the student, to bring 
The difference, with respect to Newra Ammia is, that in the one case she would have been the 
wife of a Metrodorus, in the other, of a Metrodorus Demetrius. 
I should conceive that the Metrodorus mentioned in the 9th line was the same person with the 
M. Demetrius of the 11th, the senior of the family, who survived to witness the honours paid to its 
members. 
The difficulty which a reader of Mr. Fellows’ work experiences in this part, arises from his re- 
presenting Nos. 30 and 31 as separate and independent tituli, and also from his not having traced 
with sufficient accuracy the first line of the latter, in which the characters MHTPO were quite dis- 
tinctly to be seen. He has, moreover, transposed the first and ninth lines. 
As to lines 4, s. of my version, which in the original appear thus, T'YNAIKATENOMENHNMH 
TPOAQPOY, they admit of sufficient explanation by the decease of the Metrodorus mentioned in 
line 10. There is no necessity for concluding that the honour decreed to Newra was posthumous. 
* Vid. Lycurg. adv. Leocrat. xii. Compare Polyb. vy. 35, 2. Dio, Ixviii. 4. Herodian, iii. 15, 
etc. 
