GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 



479 



XXI. 



From the Troad. See Dr. Hunt's Journal, p. 106. 



Temples and altars were raised in the provinces by the Greeks, not 

 only to the Emperors, but also to the Governors of them. (Mem. de 

 TAc. des. Ins. xviii. 455.) Even Verres in Sicily had his temples and 

 annual festivals. This inscription commemorates Agrippa, and names 

 him TON IIATPnNA KM ETEPrETHN; these words occur also in aCor- 

 cyrean inscription published by Spon. Agrippa is styled o-vyyevtjs; the 

 word applies to that relation which the inhabitants of the Troad sup- 

 posed to exist between themselves and the Romans. Van Dale, Diss. 

 312. " Ilienses maxime sibi glories ducebant Ro?nanos a se ortos fuisse." 



It is not difficult to determine the period of Agrippa's life to which 

 the inscription refers. He went into Asia for the first time in the 

 year of Rome 731, and having remained governor there ten years, he 

 returned in 741. (Joseph, lib. xvi. c. 4. ; Mem. de l'Ac. des Ins. lxii. 

 40.) During his residence in Asia, he remitted at the intercession of 

 Herodes, to the inhabitants of Ilium, the payment of the sum of 100,000 

 drachmas, a fine imposed on them as a punishment for the danger 

 which, in consequence of some negligence on their part, his daughter 

 Julia had incurred. She was passing by night the Scamander to go 

 to Ilium ; the river had swollen suddenly, and she was with difficulty 

 saved. (Nicol. Damas. in Excerp. Vales. 416.) It is probable that 

 other people of the district of the Troad might on this occasion have 

 expressed their gratitude to Agrippa. 



We may close our remarks on these Greek inscriptions by observ- 

 ing, that the Morley marbles brought to England from Sedgikeui, 

 near Smyrna, in 1732, and relating to Crato, son of Zotichus, are now 

 in the vestibule of the public library at Cambridge. A copy of them 

 is given by Maittaire at the end of the Mar. Oxon., and he supposes 

 them to be of the date between 158 and 151 B.C. 



