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himself, especially as the peculiar emblem of the god occupies the reverse 

 on which the legend MAYOY appears. There are, I think, sufficient 

 reasons against admitting the application to Apollodotus of this attributive 

 epithet, independently of any force which may attach to what has been above 

 stated, in as much as we already know Apollodotus by two distinct peculiar 

 cognomina, assigned to him in a form, which as Mr. J. Prinsep observes, 

 affords in its emphatic singularity a sort of phenomenon in numismatics, 

 I mean, in the use of the conjunction Kat between the words in the legend 



AIIOAAOAOTOY BAEIAEQ2 2QTHP02 KAI 4>IAOIIA 



T0P02. (Vide vol. ii. As. Jour. p. 406.) Now it is possible that instances 

 may be adduced in which a number of different attributive epithets are to 

 be found applied to some distinguished personage in Grecian history, but 

 the course of ordinary experience is against this ; and one may reasonably 

 conclude (even supposing no other argument existed to disprove the claim 

 of Apollodotus to the title) that MAYOY would not be assigned to 

 him on any coin in addition to his other designations, (vide vol. ii. Asiatic 

 Society's Journal, PI. VIII. vol. iv. PL XXV.) I would on the above grounds 

 then, deny the conjecture of "king Mayus" being identifiable with Apol- 

 lodotus, though I will again avail myself of part of the argument of the 

 ableconjecturist to assign the title to its real owner. 



In the extract from the Journal des Savans, above translated, very sufficient 

 reasons have been assigned for considering the Mayus coin as contempora- 

 neous in its manufacture with Apollodotus; but, not being a coin of 

 Apollodotus, the fact of its having been struck at an epoch almost identified 

 with his own, gives me a stronger right to assign the coin to one, whom 

 Mr. James Prinsep, (vol. ii. Asiatic Society's Journal, p. 410,) conceives may 

 have been the elder brother of Apollodotus, Demetrius in fact, whose name 

 we have impressed upon a coin precisely similar in all but the presence 

 of that name, to the Mayus medal, on which so much ingenious conjecture 

 has been expended. The elephant's head with the bell, is common to both, 

 the circular ornament, the monogram, and, lastly, the remarkable type 

 of the Caduceus, are found exhibited in exact fac-simile, leading to the 

 natural conclusion, that the BA2IAEQ2 MAYOY of the one is the 

 BA2IAEQ2 AHMHTPIOY of the other. The title, or synonyme 

 rather, may very probably have been with Demetrius as with Mercury, a 

 matronymic, and bestowed perhaps in adulation or in fondness on the 

 princely offspring of some mortal Maiae. 



Suppose this fairly proved, and another clue is found to the authentica- 

 tion of the history of Demetrius ; since, the Mayus coins having been 



