52 



lieve that this Atticus reckoned among the most famous 

 orators of Greece, who flourished in the times of Hadrian 

 and Antoninus Pius, and who had been sent upon several em- 

 bassyes irQia^uai to Smyrna, and other free cityes of the 

 lesser Asia, where hee presided with great honour, as appears 

 from Philostratus in the life of Scopelianus, and was the 

 father of Herodes Atticus, as hee is commonly called by the 

 Roman writers, as if it were the name of the familye : whereas 

 it should bee more properly Herodes Attici, v\z.,Jilius, as in 

 the inscription on his monument at Athens preserved by 

 Philostratus in his life. 



^Attikov 'Hpwdrig, Mapadaiviog, ov rade iravra 

 KeiTai Tti^Se ra^tg, irdvToOsv £vB6ki[xoq- 



This Herodes succeeded his father in the same honours at 

 home, and in the like governments abroad, and was magnifi- 

 cent in his buildings and public works, in Greece and Italy, 

 having been preceptor to Marcus Aurelius in the studyes of 

 oratory (of which he was universally esteemed a most cele- 

 brated Master) as Julius Capitolinus has observed in the life 

 of that Emperour, and Consul A.U.C. 896. A. Ch. 143. But 

 I thinke to the father, rather than the son, the Atticus in 

 the inscription is to bee ascribed, and if so, how hee comes 

 to bee called Hippitias or Hippotias if that bee his pre- 

 nomen, and the right reading, or whether Hippatias, or 

 whatever it should bee, bee the proper name of the person, 

 who put up the monument, and Atticus of his country, I 

 have not time nor leisure to enquire ; and in the whole am 

 no way fond of my conjecture, w*^ I look upon as altogether 

 uncertaine." 



« 4 Nov. 1707."* 



• Collect. Smith, vol. 58, p. 257. 



