GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



477 



Line 5. AI is written H ; we find instances of this change also in 

 some of the contractions in the Doric infinitive moods ; as Si^h, for 

 ottypv, dyuirxv, and otfjv. Greg.- 228. Ed. Schaefer. 



3d Inscrip. 



L. 1. T for n, as xiXvvyi in Sappho for x eXe ^ v v ; the ancient 

 Romans also wrote funtes and frundes, for fontes and frondes. 



L. 5. I is written for e, as in AAMOTEAIOS in the second in- 

 scription ; and for e/, as in Wthu The Cretans, and some of the 

 Dorians, said Qtog for Ssog. Valck. Theoc. 286. 



L. 9. 'OsgiAw J' ovhv\ ovQsv. Diog. Laer. Platonis, v. i. 189. 



L. 10. The sense of aVs^s; is explained by Suidas ; dire%oi 



uithxtmvi civri rov cc7re\ct(:oi/' act) dvQig ev 'ETriy^ctfApari, to %peo? aVs%6<f. 



L. 11. AriOAEAOANGI, the common termination would be ANTI; 

 as ea-TocKoivTi for so-TviKCio-t, Valck. Theoc. 374 ; and lo-ocvrt for <Va<r/, 

 Greg. 324. 



L. 14. I OT N for STN. " Illud ob pro v in multis scriptum est. Valck. 

 Theoc. 279. The Lacedaemonians said d^e<r<rcvcx, for aVeo-o-uTa/. Palm. 

 Exerc. 60. 



Id. UiTo^.q Mo\. pro -TrerTopsg, TSTTotptg unde et petomta. Hemsterh. 

 note 59. Pollux, ii. 1059. 



L. 15. FIKATI, Bzikoiti Hesychius, {Lijcun, Marm. Heracl. 



Translation. 

 1. 



In the archonship of Thynarchus, in the month Theluthius, I, 

 Archiarus, son of Eumelus, quaestor*, paid the undermentioned sums 

 belonging to a contract, cancelling |, according to the decree of the 

 people, with the polemarchs and inspectors %, the writings in the 

 hands of Euphron, and Phidias, and Pasiclinus, and Timomelus, 



* If the word in the third line of the original is XH02, it is probably written for 

 XAI02 dyctdo:. — Constant. Lex. 



t'Ava*p£i(rSa» ri]v <i\)yypa.<$r i v i syngrapham irritam facere. — Bud. 153. 

 l^aTo'xnjj l7TiTY)pijT))f. — Const. Lex. 



