GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 477 



Line 5. AI is written H : we find instances of this change also in 

 some of the contractions in the Doric infinitive moods ; as JivJ/w, for 



^i^av, ccyxTTTv, and o'pri'. Greg. 228. Ed. Schaefer. 



' • 3d Inscrip. , 



'. L. 1. T for n, as ^sXi^'i'i? in Sappho for x^^^^'^ 5 the ancient 

 Romans also wrote f antes and fnmdes, iox f antes and fro7ules. 



L. 5. I is written for i, as in AAMOTEAIOS in the second in- 

 scription ; and for si, as in sTrti^ei. The Cretans, and some of the 

 Dorians, said eioV for Qso;. Valck. Theoc. 286. 



L. 9. ^OtpstXu J' ovSsv] oudiv. Diog. Laer. Platonis, v. i. 189. 



L. 10. The sense of a7re;^/£< is explained by Suidas ; aVe^w 



eciTioiTixyi uvTi tou UTreXa.l^oi'' v.on au9»j ei/ 'Y.'my^a.^u.a.rt, to %p£oj oi,Ti'f/sic;. 



L. 11. AnOAEAOANQI, the common termination would be ANTI; 

 as £(rT«Kai/r.' for i(Tjy\Ka.<yi, Valck. Tlieoc. 374 ; and JVai/Tj for 'l(Toi.Ti, 

 Greg. 324. ., . 



L. 14. iOTN for lYN. " Illud Ob pro v in miiltis scriptum est. Valck. 

 Theoc. 279. The Lacedaemonians said ccTTicra-ovot. for aVecro-uTa;. Palm. 

 Exerc. 60. , 



Id. UsTOf^sg JEol. pro TrsTTope?, ArTu^iq uude et pctorvita. Hemsterh. 

 note 59. Pollux, ii. 1059. 



L. 15. FIKATI, Bj;jcaT< Hesychius, Lmocti, Marm. Heracl. 



, Translation. 

 1. 

 In the archonship of Thynarchus, in the month Theluthius, I, 

 Archiarus, son of Eumelus, quaestor*, paid the undermentioned sums 

 belonging to a contract, cancelling ], according to the decree of the 

 people, with the polemarchs and inspectors:}:, the writings in the 

 hands of Euphron, and Phidias, and Pasiclinus, and Timomelus, 



* If the word in the third line of the original is XH02, it is probably written for 

 XAIOS ayaSo';. — Constant. Lex. 



t'Avaipeio-flai T>iv cruyypa^Tjv, syngrapham irritaiu facere. — Bud. 153. 

 |)|aroVT>!; i7r(T))f>)T>);. — Const. Lex. 



