Dr. Grorerenp on Inscriptions found in Lycia and Phrygia. 327 
know,* that the Milesians honoured the Lycian Arotio, as the Ephesians 
did the Persian Artemis ; and, according to Eusraruius,t the coronet, the 
girdle, and the feet of the Ephesian Arremts, bore certain words to which 
was ascribed a magic power of delivering from imminent danger. Hesy- 
culus says that these words were “Aciicy, Karooniov, AlE, Terpak, Acuvorpsvere, 
Aivioy, and signified darkness, light, earth, year, sun, and truth. The Milesia 
grammata, which differed from these, were Biv, Zor), XIav, Manxrgov, UPlyé, 
KvdECBi, XGvaryc, DAcypysc, Apwi) ; among which Bedy is expressly stated by 
Ciemens ALEXANDRINUS { to be a Phrygian word, signifying, according to 
some, water ; and to others, air. From the Persian bad, the latter inter- 
pretation is the most probable, especially as Piaro, in Cratylus, says that 
the Greek words (wp and zip are Phrygian. According to that example, 
we may consider, if not the Ephesian, yet at least the Milesian incantatory 
words as Phrygian, and thus compare the Lycian Chétafta with ySumris. 
Although we might take y9ay for earth or netherworld ; rAjxzpov for some- 
thing ¢o strike with; c¢lyé for an oppressive being ; Qacypos for warming 
blood ; and even 3;«:) for an extraction of noxious humours from the body, 
still x#£CG: and ySvx7¢ sound too strangely not to lead us also to refer 
Ce) rather to the Persian sheb, “ night;” which in Zend is pronounced 
Qsaps, than to receive it as a Greek designation of a tempest at sea. But if 
xvé&C3: was a Phrygian word, it cannot appear singular in the Lycian, if 
we read the twelfth word ibe. The tenth word is not very different from 
this; indeed, in the fourth inscription, it is precisely the same, with the 
exception of the first letter: in the fifteenth word, however, the termination 
ii is added, which seemingly indicates a plural, since the preceding word, 
which in the first inscription is in both cases tedieme, in the remaining 
inscription has taken the final letter 7. The Carian inscription will there- 
fore, if not in the eleventh, at all events in the sixteenth word, relate to 
several women, But the whole inscription is so imperfectly copied, that it 
is impossible to decide, with respect to the seventh word, whether the cha- 
racter peculiar to it be an 7. Now, though the seventh word rather signifies 
child than son, yet its plural in the fourteenth word denotes the daughters 
rather than the children generally ; for Nicoraus Damascenus § expressly 
says, Avxios tag yuvorinas maAAoy ih Tous cadpas Timers Kal KocdodyToc HNTPOSEY, Tag Te 
~ , , > ~~ Cw 
nAnpovopders TALC Suyetpoct Asiqrour ty OU TOLS UIOLS. 
* Tacit. Ann. iv. 55. + On Odyss. xix. 247. 
{ Strom. v. p. 568, § Stobaus, p. 292, 23, 
Vor. III. 2U 
