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REMARKS ON SOME GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



IBV THE EDITOR.'] 



Some Greek inscriptions, most of which have never yet been pub- 

 lished, are inserted in this part of the volume ; and a few remarks 

 are added by the Editor, for the purpose of illustration. Documents 

 of this kind are of importance, when they fix the doubtful site of 

 some city or town, or when they throw light on the paleography 

 and ancient dialects of Greece.* We may mention the Orchomenian 

 inscriptions, as among the most important which have been lately 

 discovered, if we consider them with reference to the dialect. The 

 Elean tablet brought to England by Sir W. Gell may be added, as 

 well as some of the Elgin inscribed marbles. 



Many of the numerous inscriptions copied by Cyriacus, and found 

 in the collections of Muratori, Gruter, Hesselius, and other writers, 

 are incorrectly transcribed. Some of these have been emended by 

 Valckenaer, Koehn, and Bentley ; but as the original marbles have 

 been frequently destroyed, it is impossible to compare the copies 

 with them. Of the ancient inscriptions which are sculptured on 

 rocks, we may mention that which was found by Professor Carlyle 

 and Colonel Leake, in their route through Asia Minor ; those also 

 which are to be seen on Mount Anchesmus, and on the south-side of 

 the Acropolis at Athens ; the Latin words in the defile of Tempe, and 

 the Greek characters sculptured on the rock near Jerusalem, by the 

 early Christians. "]" 



* All inscription found by (^ol. Leake in Thessaly may be here referred to as illustrat- 

 ing a passage in Plato : it commemorates an offering, AITAOTNI ; this is the Thessalian 

 name of Apollo, who, as we learn from Plato, was called by the same people AFIAOS. — 

 C'raty. 



t AriASIliN. — See Dr. Clarke's Travels, vol. ii. 



