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This record was found by the author in a most mutilated 

 state ; but sufficient of it fortunately remained, to enable him 

 to connect its notices with the accounts given by Tacitus, 

 Spartianus, and Dio, of the liberality of those emperors to 

 the distressed States of the Proconsular Asia, which had been 

 devastated by a succession of earthquakes in the region of 

 the Katakekaumene. 



The most remarkable of the Pergamenian incriptions 

 were those in honour of Hadrian, both after his assumption 

 of the purple, and during the life-time of Trajan. One of 

 these may be regarded as peculiarly valuable, the great pro- 

 bability being, that it still exists amongst the inedited monu- 

 ments of the Graeco-Roman era, and that it bears most 

 strongly on the historical doubt originated by the above- 

 mentioned Dio, on the subject of Hadrian's adoption. 



Two other inscriptions, which were copied at Pergamos, 

 appear evidently to belong to the period of the Lower Em- 

 pire. They have, however, been allowed a place in this 

 collection, as tending to illustrate the taste and style of the 

 age in such matters. Both are honorary, and one en- 

 taphial. 



The Smyrnaean Tituli are five in numbex-, viz. a fragment 

 of a decree, or treaty •, a notice of the officers of the customs 

 of the port of the ancient city ; a votive epigraph, on a stele; 

 a fragment of an inscription from the frieze of a temple; 

 lastly, an epitaph. 



On these the author of the essay dwelt at considerable 

 length, more especially on the third, in which he pointed out 

 a circumstance which appeared to have escaped the notice 

 of former writers : amongst these, of Mr. Arundell, whose 

 work on the Apocalyptic Churches appeared in 1828. This 

 remark concerned the metre, and led to a conversation with 

 a gentleman present, who expressed an interest in Mr. 

 Arundell's discoveries, and a wish to be informed on the sub- 

 ject of the accuracy of that traveller's statements. 



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