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GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



L. 17. Some of the honours which are bestowed on Metrodorus are 

 mentioned in this and the two following lines. K*»<*ip yag xoa olxiav 

 occurs in the Byzantine decree in Demos, de Coron. In an inscription 

 copied at Delos, we find ly.Kjonrtv yag zee) o. " libertatem emendi fundos 

 et domos :" see Dorville in his account of Delos. In an inscription 

 brought from the Levant by George Dousa, (Van Dale. Diss. 744.) 

 we read, \(poobi> e~l rvjv f3ou\vjv kou tov driftov TTput^oig p,i\oL rot Isocc, " admitti 

 statim post sacrificia :" and on a marble belonging to Burmann, we find, 



ttyohov S7rl To&f/, (3o\Xocv y.oci o^cc/xofA ysjtz Toy xpyy.cilirp.ov rou 7T£p< tuv law. 



Metrodorus, therefore, was allowed admission to the senate and people 

 immediately after the sacrifices were performed. 



Valesius (Emen. 110.) says, the difference between zr^mv and 

 'iyKTYjo-iv is pointed out by Ammonius ; tcryo-ig ryjg yy\g is " possessio in 

 terra propria ;" lyzrvio-ig is possession " in aliena terra." 



XV. 



[See Dr. Hunt's Journal, p. 128.] 



" From his revenues derived from land, Cleostratus, adopted son 

 of the state, but by nature son of Apellico, left for the purpose of orna- 

 menting the city ." A mode of expression similar to that which 



we find in this inscription occurs in others ; as, <ln\uv 'AyXaov, <pvo-ei2e 

 NiKuvog ; see Mem. de 1' A. des Ins. xxi. 413. 



XVI. 



Captain Light, in his Journal of a route through Upper Egypt and 

 part of Nubia, says, that at Gartaas there are not less than a hundred 

 Greek inscriptions ; five were copied by him ; and each contains a 

 memorial of the act of homage and worship, to 7t^oo-kvvi]uoc, paid by 

 persons who visited the place with their wives, children, friends, and 

 brothers : META THL ZTMBIOT KAI TX1N TEKNHN KAI TX1N 

 AAEA'PnN KAI TXIN OIAX1N. In another inscription, a person is men- 



