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ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTION. 



markable that the rude statue of Minerva-Polias was preserved by 

 the Athenians to so late a period as the age of Plutarch. See Euseb. 

 Prasp. E. L.iii c. 8., and Wessel. Prob. p. 310. 



L. 2. ' AyouXvjfov. See Harpocrates in v. 'A^tAij. This word and 

 'AypeivXr, have been improperly confounded by some writers ; see 

 Corsini, F. A. Diss. v. 



L. 6. The archonship of Diodes does not commence before July in 

 the year 409 B.C., for the archonship of Glaucippus finished at the 

 end of June in that year. Barthelemy, Mem. des In. xlviii. 407. 



L. 23. Toyydxov; \i9ovg. There is some difficulty in pointing out the 

 part of the building to which these words refer. The scholiast on 

 the Pax of Aristophanes, v. 28., merely uses the expression, IVtj Je 

 xa) yoyyvXog Xi&oc, without giving any elucidation. 



L. 29. llotXatrTi] to ptrpov, says Phrynichus, uvw toZ i. In this form 

 it always occurs in the inscription. It is also found without the iota 

 in one of the MSS. of Herodotus, Cod. Med. ; see Oudendorp ad 

 Thom. M. 674. On the Nilometer of Elephantine we find 7raXa«rro/, 

 (see Girard's Memoire,) but the inscription there is of the age of 

 Severus. 



L. 30. As Kioxptzvov occurs in the inscription, it may be sufficient 

 authority for the word in those places, where some propose to alter it 

 to Ktovoxpoivov. Pollux, 1. vii. 121. 



L. 34. The expression used by Euripides to denote this part of a 

 building, is Xoiiva. kioo-iv 'ipfioXa, Bacch. 591., lapidece trabes columnis im- 

 positce. See D'Orville, Charit. ii. 626. 



L. 38. 'ETrep^. This word, as Heyne remarks, is applied by Pausanias 



to work in relief, au(j vakts^ov 11 tov K^ocvovg ypu7reg eitriv eTrttpyoto pivot, 



" on each side of the helmet are griffins worked in relief," L. i. In 

 the language of the Greek artists, irepupuvvj tydtcc, are " figures in high 

 relief;" iv^oo-iuiva *, " those in low relief." See Schweigh. in Athenae. 

 L v. c. 38. 



* Tunas is the word applied to sculpture in relief in general ; see the passage already 

 cited, p. 380. of this volume, from the Hypsipyle of Euripides. 



