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nomine, duae muliebres imagines sculptse adfabre, et incor- 

 ruptae ; altera cum hac inscriptione, 



KA2 . AY2IMAXHN THN WAANAPON 

 O ePE^AS eHAYMITPHS 



altera cum hac inscriptione 



THN NEAN MYHSIQN HGAIN 



TIAS ATTIKOS." 



Dr. Todd stated that he had met with a letter in the 

 Bodleian Library, in which these busts are mentioned, and the 

 interpretation of the inscriptions discussed. It is preserved 

 in the valuable correspondence of Dr. Thomas Smith, who 

 was Fellow of Magdalen College at the Revolution, and 

 whose lot it was to have been twice deprived of his Fellow- 

 ship by the opposite parties of that period ; first, by King 

 James IT. , when the attempt was made by that monarch to 

 alter the constitution of the College; and secondly, by King 

 William III., when Dr. Smith resigned his preferment rather 

 than take the oath to the new dynasty. The letter is addressed, 

 by Dr. Smith to Dr. Narcissus Marsh, then Lord !Primate of 

 Ireland, who had been Principal of St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 

 and subsequently Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. The 

 portion of the letter which relates to the busts is as follows :■ . 



"The two busts sent to Dublin from Legorne, I suppose 

 came from Smyrna, or the country thereabout, where old 

 monuments are continually discovered. 



"The first erected to the honour (for so I will favourably 

 interpret it) of Clodia Lysimache (who is styled there ^iXavdpog, 

 i. e. viri sive mariti amans; tho' oftentimes (piXavSpog yvvrj is 

 taken in an ill sense for a lascivious and incontinent woman) 

 by one who bred her up and maintained her, viz., Thehjmi- 

 tres, if that be his proper name, which is not unlikely, tho' 

 the appellative Qr\\vixiTpog is used of an effeminate man 

 abandoned to the excessive love of the other sex, and there- 



