470 GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



L. 17. Some of the honours which are bestowed on Metrodorus are 

 mentioned in this and the two following lines. Ktutiv ya? Koi olxiav 

 occurs in the Byzantine decree in Demos, de Coron. In an inscription 

 copied at Delos, we find IkkIuo-iv yS./; kou o. " libertatem emendi fundos 

 et domos .•" see Dorville in his account of Delos. In an inscription 

 brought from the Levant by George Dousa, (Van Dale. Diss. 744.) 



we read, i(pooov nrl njv fdouXrjv zxt Tov ^'yif/.ov irpc/Joiq fA.flcc toj *£p«, " Cldmittl 



statim post sacrificia .-" and on a marble belonging to Burmann, we find, 



t^oSov £7r» rocfju l3oXXa.v y.txi oxfiO[4, [/.sja. Toy ^fyif/.xjiTf/.ov tou, Trep* tuv iouv. 



Metrodorus, therefore, was allowed admission to the senate and people 

 immediately after the sacrifices were performed. 



Valesius (Emen. 110.) says, the difference between y-Tr^rtv and 

 lyycTviTiv is pointed out by Ammonius ; Kr^cng t^V yyi? is " possessio in 

 terra propria ;" eyx.Tyj(n<; is possession " in aliena terra" 



XV. 



[See Dr. Hunt's Journal, p. 128.] 



" From his revenues derived from land, Cleostratus, adopted son 

 of the state, but by nature son of Apellico, left for the purpose of orna- 

 menting the city ." A mode of expression similar to that which 



we find in this inscription occurs in others ; as, <i>iXuv 'AyXxov, ':p-o(TH^l 

 N<x«i/(9?; see Mem. de I'A. des Ins. xxi. 413. 



XVI. 



Captain Light, in his Journal of a route through Upper Egypt and 

 part of Nubia, says, that at Gartaas there are not less than a hundred 

 Greek inscriptions ; five were copied by him ; and each contains a 

 memorial of the act of homage and worship, to 'TT^oa-v.vvyiy.a, paid by 

 persons who visited tlie place with their wives, children, friends, and 

 brothers : META THE ETMBIOT KAI TUN TEKNXIN KAI TXIN 

 AAEAOJflN KAI TflN (MAllN. In another inscription, a person is men- 



