324 Dr. Grorerenp on Inscriptions found in Lycia and Phrygia. 
value rather of the Latin consonant than the Greek vowel, the character in 
question may have been rendered by an a, only in order to produce a Greek 
sounding name like Sees, which Puavorinus explains by yaanve. That 
the name is however really Lycian, appears from the name dygois, which, 
according to ScyLax, is given to a cape and harbour in Lycia: and here 
we should observe, that in Lycia, as in Caria, the 4 was, even in CrcERO’s 
time, pronounced as it is now by the modern Greeks. At least, at the 
Parthian expedition of Crassus, according to Cicero,* the word Kawalas, 
by which Carian figs were offered for sale, was spoken exactly like the Latin 
Cave ne eas. It is true that SrepHanus writes this name Lidzeods; but as 
he mentions a Lycian city S2xy, which is said to have taken its name from 
the daughter of Amisoporus; and also Xidyv9 and Lisuuez, whose names he 
derives from E/duuoc, as well as an Ionian city Sidyay and Lidoucre, together 
with many small towns named Xidcis, we perceive that the name of the 
Pamphylian city /y is the true root of all those names, notwithstanding 
their having received various terminations with different vowels. 
With regard to the Carian inscription, we are not certain, from the im- 
perfect state of its characters, whether the a is not an incorrect representation 
by the copyist of the character whose import we are seeking to establish, 
and which is in other instances also not very accurately given. In the 
third word, at least, this a corresponds to the character which we have 
above, in the word yopy, taken for a long y, but which, in the second 
inscription, as well as the m preceding it, is not clearly exhibited. Accord- 
ing to the relation of that character to the long z (which would also appear 
to be the last character of the fourth word of the Carian inscription, if we 
may rely upon the transcript), we must feel all the more disposed to receive 
it for a longi; it being, in fact, nothing more than an J with an apex. 
Sipartos was therefore Sepireya, as PypraLe was properly Pysraris1, at 
least in the dative. What the sound of the third name may have been, we 
cannot determine, since the whole of it in the Lycian inscription is de- 
stroyed except the letters at the beginning. But the Greek inscription has 
also a chasm between ze and yc, which is probably to be supplied by 
an 7, inasmuch as the adjectives of the above-mentioned names of cities 
generally end with jcc. And it is clear that the names in question must 
also be taken as adjectives, since the Zycians, as is expressly affirmed by 
HeEroportus,t took their names, not from the father, but from the mother, 
* De Div. II, 40; and Plin. Hist. Nat. xv, 19 (21) extr. = pin (led fy 63 
