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lore explained by Suidas by the word nopvog. But bee that 

 as it will, hee was desirous to preserve the memory of his 

 QpeiTTri or Alumna by this representation, as some of the 

 QpsTTT^peg or oi Qpi^avrsg used to do frequently enough, as 

 is evident from undoubted inscriptions. 



" 'Tis pity, that the other inscription is imperfect and 

 erased. Stephanus Byzantinus, in his booke irspl ttoAewvj 

 mentions Mvrig a city of Ionia, its IOvikov or Gentilitium 

 nomen Mvyjaiog, y/'^^ is the name in the inscription ; but 

 whether Myes bee here meant by via voXig then newly 

 erected into a city, or some other city built by the inhabi- 

 tants of the former, forced to remove to a more convenient 

 and healthier place, the defect in the beginning, owing to the 

 injury of time after so many ages, will not suffer us to know 

 now who it was that did honour to this new city by setting 

 up this monument, who I suppose was a Greeke of Attica, 

 and the word preceding it may be the name of the tribe or 

 Sijjuoe to which hee belonged. If it be the same with Myus, 

 Mvovg, as is very hkely, then it is certaine that it was a mari- 

 time city of Ionia, not farre from the river Maeander, w'''^ I 

 passed over in my travells to take a view of the once famous 

 churches of Asia, on a rotten wooden bridge going thence, 

 leaving Caria on the other side into Ionia, of w= wee have 

 several accounts given by Strabo, Pausanias, and Pliny, not 

 to mention other authors both Greek and Latine. Pliny now 

 lying upon my table I think fit to transcribe his words, Nat. 

 Histor. lib. v. cap. 29 —Myus, quod primo condidisse lones 

 narrantur, Athenis profecti. But I do not pretend to write a 

 commentary on these marbles, but leave that to be done by 

 those learned men, who are in possession of them." 



In a P. S. he adds : 



" Reviewing those hasty notes upon the two Greek in- 

 scriptions, I began soone to doubt of my conjecture about 

 Atticus, as if it had beene a patronymic, and the name of the 

 tribe or Sijjuoc of Attica prefixed : but now I am prone to be- 



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