of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 55 
planatory notices. We agree in the main; the points in which we do not are 
best reserved for a more favourable time and place than the present ; my in- 
tention now is, to offer a few remarks on the principal antiquarian allusions 
which render this document so valuable, and which may be reduced to the 
general heads of the genealogical, the architectural, and the municipal. 
(a.) We have seen that the epigraph opens with a statement of the descent 
of the erector of the monument, which, so far as we possess of the document, 
comprises five generations. It is evident from their other tituli remaining to 
us, that the people of Aphrodisias were studiously observant of this branch of 
etiquette in their legal formularies. When more than five generations were to 
be noticed, their mode of abridging the trouble of setting down the names in 
order was, to dispense with all but the extremes, and mark by wevraxis, €Eaxcs, 
etc., the number of successive descents from the point of origin. But this, in- 
deed, is very usual, even when no more than two, three, or four descents were 
to be noticed; and thus we have dis, rpis, Terpakis, expressing the relation of 
a person to his grandfather, great-grandfather, or great-great-grandfather. 
In this way, the relationship between the first and last Eudamus, in the titu- 
lus before us, would be expressed, evdapos terpaxis evdapov, Apellas being 
supposed his immediate progenitor. 
Whenever it happened that individuals of the same name occupied the suc- 
cessive generations, the genitive after the numeral is dispensed with. Thus, had it 
so happened, that the name Eudamus had been transmitted from sire to son for 
the five generations supposed to be recorded in this inscription, the expression 
Evdapos terpaxts would have been sufficient to account for his descent from the 
first mentioned of the name. 
Sometimes a still more abbreviated form was used, namely, in short tituli, or 
where there was no room for dilating, or, perhaps, no necessity for so doing, from 
the formula not being tied down to legal phraseology. This consisted in the 
substitution of the numeral letters, B, I, A, etc. for their respective values. 
Thus Evéayos T Zivevos would mean Eudamus, great-grandson of Zeno, and 
Evdapos 1, Eudamus, the great-grandson of a person of the same name. 
The titulus before us affords two instances of this peculiar mode of expression, 
one occurring in the fourth, the other in the last line. The first of these runs 
