GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 473 



Memnonium*, correcting one of the verses in D'Orville's copy of it. 

 Charit. ii, 532. 



EKATON ATAH2ANT02 Em 17TAI0H BAABINA 

 $£NA2 TAS ©EIAS MEMNONOS H <MMEN&0. 



HA0ON TMOT AEPATAI BA2IAHIAI TTIAE SABINNA 

 &PA2 AE nPiiTA^ AAIOS HKEAP0M02. 



In the third line, opov and ry'Se are inserted improperly in the copy 

 of D'Orville ; vpov and tuJs are doubtless the proper forms, and are 

 given in Pococke and Hamilton's iEgyptiaca. There are many in- 

 stances in which the later Greeks j* affected the archaisms and dialects 

 of ancient Greece ; this is one, upou is written for ouou ; jffioles, quod 

 vulgo notum, in v commutant. (Nunnes. ad Proclum ; see Gaisford's 

 Hephsest. 451.) And ruth is the Doric word, signifying, " Here or 

 hither;" rvt, ufe, Kpyjrsg, tviis, Sappho, v. Maittaire. 



XIX. 



See p. 104. Dr. Hunt's Journal. 

 IAIEIZ. x. t. A. 



The same term of honor, ®eoV, was also applied, as we learn from 

 Athenagoras, by the Ilieans to Hector: c O plv 'ixuvg 6so»"EzTcpoi Xeyei. 

 Legat. pro Xtianis. 



In the same page of this volume is an inscription relating to the 

 people of the tribe Panthois, who commemorate Sextus Julius, 

 magistrate of the city, praefect of the Jabian cohort, who had also 

 been gy mnasiarch, and had been the first to grant some donation of 



* On the same statue of Memnon are the following lines : — 



a nonoi h MErA ©ayma - - 



H MAAA TO ©EOS ENAON 



HT^EN *i2NHI RATA AE2XE0EAAON AIIANTA 

 OT TAP ni2S AN ©NHTOS ANHP TAAE MHXANOGTO 

 These are parts of the Iliad and Odyssey applied by the writer. See II. N. 99. Od. il. 

 529. Od. IT. 197. 



f In another inscription found in Egypt, of the time of the Caesars, we read 

 TAIAE *YAA1 <W2NETNTI, speaking of Philse. ^gypt. 52. 



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