468 



GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



in other inscriptions ; see Falcon, ad Athlet. Inscr. H, I, OI, EI, and 

 T have been for many centuries written one for the other, and the 

 same sound given to them by the Neoteric Greeks. This remark 

 applies also to A I and E. " Tarn captiosa pronuntiatio mendis infinitis 

 libros opplevit" (Bentl. ad I. Millium.) What was the real power of 

 these different letters we shall never know ; we may, however, say 

 with Ramirez de Prado, "frustra distinctce essent Uteres r, a, a, u, /, si 

 nihil differrent sono." Pentec. c. 34. The corrupted sound of some 

 of them is as early as the second century of the Christian sera. We 

 find t for si in the time of Tiberius, Mont. Palae. 155 ; et for ; in an 

 inscription at Ancyra of the year 180, (ib. 163.) ?? for v in an epitaph 

 on the wife of Julius Severus, who lived about the year 155. Mont- 

 faucon observes that few instances occur of the change of n\ and /, 

 before the seventh century. (Pal. 139.) 



XII. 



At Gheumbrek, on the Troad. See Dr. Hunt's journal, p. 104. 



" The young men honor Asclapon, the son of Callippus the Gym- 



nasiarch, called ." The words refer to some mark of respect 



paid by the young men who were instructed in their exercises for the 

 public games by the Gymnasiarch. The word XPHM ATI SANTA 

 applies to the title or name which had been given to Asclapon. In 

 Lord Aberdeen's copy, we find AZKAHniXlNA. 



XIII. 



Found on a sarcophagus on the European shore of the Propontis, 

 near Boyuk Chekmagee. Communicated by Dr. Hunt. 



ATPHA1A BAOTKIA Z12SA KAI 4>PONOT2A KATE2KETA2E TO 

 A ATOM ION STN THlSTHAHIEMATTHI KAI Ti2irATKTTA 

 M MOT ANAPI SATTP&NIAftl TnOMNEIAS XAP1N ZH2 

 ANTI ETHTPIAKONTAMEMIITX22 MHAEN AETEP 

 ON EEESTAI BAH0HNAI E2ATTO EIMH TA TEKNA MOT 

 EIAETI2 KATA0HTAI ETEPO ITT&MA A&2EI TH IIOAEI 

 XA*. XA1PE EIAP0ENA. 



