GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 473 



Memnonium*, correcting one of tlie verses in D'Orville's copy of it. 

 Gharit. ii. 532. 



EKATON ATAH2ANT02 EVn, nYAI0i2 BAABINA 

 *i2NA2 TA2 0EIAS MEMN0N02 H 4>AMENI2©. 



HA0ON TMOT AEPATAl BA2IAHIAI TTIAE 2ABINNA 

 ilPAS AE nPOTA:! AAI02 HKEAPOMO:;. 



In the third line, oy.dv and r^Se are inserted improperly in the copy 

 of D'Orville ; ufMu and tviSi are doubtless the proper forms, and are 

 given in Pococke and Hamilton's iEgyptiaca. There are many in- 

 stances in which the later Greeks f affected the archaisms and dialects 

 of ancient Greece ; this is one, uuou is written for ouov ; ^oles, quod 

 vulgo notum, in v commutant. (Nunnes. ad Proclum ; see Gaisford's 

 Hephaest. 451.) And tvi^ is the Doric word, signifying, " Here or 

 hither ;" tu;, Zh, Kp^re;, rujf, Sappho, v. Maittaire. 



XIX. 



See p. 104. Dr. Hunt's Journal. 



lAIEII. y.. T. X. 



The same term of honor, 0eoV> was also applied, as we learn from 

 Athenagoras, by the Ilieans to Hector: O fxlv 'iXuuV 6iov"EKTrfa Xsysu 

 Legat. pro Xtianis. 



In the same page of this volume is an inscription relating to the 

 people of the tribe Panthois, who commemorate Sextus Julius, 

 magistrate of the city, prsefect of the Fabian cohort, who had also 

 been gymnasiarch, and had been the first to grant some donation of 



* On the same statue of Memnon are the following lines ; — 



12 nonOI H MEFA 0ATMA 



H MAAA TI2 0EO2 ENAON - 



HTSEN *X2NHI KATA AE2XE0EAAON AHANTA 

 or TAP nils AN 0NHTO2 ANHP TAAE MHXANOfiTO 

 These are parts of the Iliad and Odyssey applied by the writer. See II. N. 99. Od. ii. 

 529. Od. n. 197. 



f In another inscription found in Egypt, of the time of the Csesars, we read 

 TAIAE *TAA1 *i2NETNTI, speaking of Philie. i^gj^t- 52. 



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