468 ' GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



in other inscriptions ; see Falcon, ad Athlet. Inscr. H, J, OI, EI, and 

 T have been for many centuries written one for the other, and the 

 same sound given to them by the Neoteric Greeks. This remai'k 

 apphes also to A I and E. " Tarn captiosa pronuntiatio mendis infinitis 

 libros opplevit." (Bentl. ad I. Millium.) What was the real p4^wer of 

 these different letters we shall never know ; we may, however, say 

 with Ramirez de Prado, ^'frustra disiinctce essent Uteres r, £■, c;, u, /, si 

 nihil differrent sono^ Pentec. c. 34. The corrupted sound of some 

 of them is as early as the second century of the Christian cera. We 

 find i for £; in the time of Tiberius, Mont. Palae. 155 ; si for < in an 

 inscription at Ancyra of the year 180, (ib. 163.) r for u in an epitaph 

 on the wife of Julius Severus, who lived about the year 155. Mont- 

 faucon observes that few instances occur of the change of ri and /, 

 before the seventh century. (Pal. 139.) 



XII. 



At Gheumbrek, on the Troad. See Dr. Hunt's journal, p. 104. 



" The young men honor Asclapon, the son of Callippus the Gym- 



nasiarch, called " The words refer to some mark of respect 



paid by the young men who were instructed in their exercises for the 

 public games by the Gymnasiarch. The word XPHMATIIANTA 

 applies to the title or name which had been given to Asclapon. In 

 Lord Aberdeen's copy, we find ASKAHnillNA. 



; i XIII. 



Found on a sarcophagus on the European shore of the Propontis, 

 near Boyuk Chekmagee. Communicated by Dr. Hunt. 



ATPHAIA BAOTKIA ZilSA KAI <i)P0N0T2A KATE2KETA2E TO 

 AATOMION STN THlSTHAHIEMATTHI KAI TX2irATKTTA 

 Ti2I MOT ANAPI SATTPflNIAlil TOOMNEIAS XAPIN ZH2 

 ANTI ETHTPlAKONTAMEMnTilS MHAEN AETEP 

 ON EHE2TAI BAH0HNAI E2ATT0 EIMH TA TEKNA MOT 

 EiAETl2 KATA0HTAI ETEPO OTilMA AX25EI TH DOAEI 

 XA*. XAIPE nAPGENA. 



