1851.] Indo- Scythian Princes. 151 



lords in the Punjab, and as having abolished royalty, to detect in one 

 of the epithets of these potentates an indication of the leader of a 

 sect or branch : and it is curious, as history is ever a repetition of 

 herself, to discover in this rude community the prototype of the Sikhs, 

 divided into their o£oi or Missuls, before the dominant influence of the 

 great and wise Runjeet had consolidated their power into the union of 

 a monarchy. 



The last observation which I have to offer respecting these coins is 

 a conjecture as to a very peculiar legend of Kadphises in which, in a 

 very perfect silver specimen (the only Indo-Scythian silver coin yet 

 (1841) found), there occurs after /3a<nA.eus /WtAewv /xeyas the inex- 

 plicable word OOHMO. A similar barbarism occurs on a large copper 

 coin of this king after the words /iWiAcvs y&xo-iAewv o-oirrjp /*eyas written 

 ©OMHN. It varies apparently on other coins to OOH, ©OK, OOHK, 

 OOKM. Is not the first a barbarized effort to write o i/xov — who (is) 



of me, i. e. my ? And the second a like attempt to express 6 ypiv 



who (is) to us, i. e. our ? The reduplication of the o would express the 

 aspirate, and even classical authority (ov/xos for o e/x,os being the Attic 

 contraction ; found also II. 8, 360,) admits the running of the words 

 together. We thus have a curious and familiar legend in both cases. 

 * 1 . King of Kings Great my (of me) Kadphises, 



2. King of Kings Saviour Great to us Kadphises. 



The other barbarous legends are natural mistakes on the part of 

 ignorant die-cutters directed to employ a new form of words. These 

 which are barbarisms of execution, are thus easily accounted for : the 

 barbarisms of diction, I would submit, are no where so great in the 

 legends of these coins, as in the barbarous, but still intelligible Greek 



of the Triballus of Aristophanes, who says (it is his longest speech) 



kclXolvi Kopavva koll jxeydXa fiavikwav 

 opviOt 7ra/3a8t8o)/xt. *|* 



* The Pracrit-tran slated legend should assist us in both these instances, but the 

 reading of the first is declared by Professor Wilson as doubtful, and the second is 

 entered by him illegible at the very point in which we require it. 



H. T. 

 f 114-115 lines of the last scene of "the Birds." Tro(rei8ow. rptfiaWos. 

 7]pctK\r)S. ireiadeTaipos. 



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