of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 73 
has published it from the Prokeschian MSS., but in such a state as effectually to 
preclude almost any attempt at restoration.* 
Ibid. page 146, line 19. 
Professor Béckh has published the titulus here referred to from the copies of 
Choiseul-Gouffier, Turner, and Cyril, with the following for the first line, 
ATATATEISAIAIATNOMH, which he translates sententia propria constituta.F 
It is added also, with respect to the date of the inscription, ex nomine Aelii vert- 
simile fit Isidotum Hadriano non esse antiquiorem ; rather gratuitous information, 
as any one even moderately acquainted with Byzantine affectation might suppose. 
Ibid. page 147, line 2. 
“Apa 67 Kat o Nixaveos. Professor Bockh,t who has published this also 
from the same sources as the preceding, reads here NEIKQNNEOS, translating 
it Nico minor. This not only divests the inscription of its Byzantine point, but 
contradicts the evidence of the marble. 
Ibid. same page, line 13. 
The reader will please to correct the explanation of these letters given in 
the following paragraph. That they are nwmerals is certain, and equally so that 
they do not express dates, but rather the numerical equivalence (icoWnpia) of 
the lines with which they range. Other instances of this literary trifling may be 
seen in the more elegant compositions of Leonidas of Alexandria, in the Antho- 
logia.§ 
I remarked, when at Pergamos, that numerals of a similar kind were attached 
to the lines of inscriptions which I observed in the burial ground of the church 
Ayo Theodhoro,in the upper town. One of these, of considerable extent, I copied, 
and hope, at no distant period, to give to the Public. It was reference to this 
which first suggested the idea that these numerals could not stand for dates, as the 
values differ widely from each other, being successively 1726, 2156, and 3000, 
* Corp. Inser. p. 845, n. 3518. + Vid. not. p. 858, n, 3544. 
$ Id. p. 858, n, 3545, 
§ Vid. Jacobs. Anthol. T. ii. p. 174. Passow. in voc. icopndes, I. p. 1128, a. 
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