214 APPENDIX I. 



the versions are slight, they are omitted. There 

 are also two new inscriptions copied by Sir C. 

 Fellows, Nos. 10 and 19. 



In the version of the inscriptions given in the 

 text, an endeavour has been made to restore 

 the true reading as far as practicable. This is 

 easier than might be expected, owing to the 

 frequent recurrence of the same words and 

 phrases in different inscriptions, which being 

 funereal have a great sameness of expression ; 

 and it is by taking advantage of the repetition 

 of similar sentences differently modified, that 

 the author arrives at the translations which have 

 been given of some portions. The bilingual in- 

 scriptions furnish the meanings of a certain num- 

 ber of Lycian words : where several of these 

 are found in another sentence in company with 

 only one or two others, the context usually gives 

 a probable meaning for the new words ; this 

 probability is increased every time that the 

 meaning so acquired gives a consistent sense to 

 a fresh sentence, and it becomes almost a cer- 

 tainty if it produces a rational translation in 

 every instance. This method is strictly analo- 

 gous to that followed in reading an unknown 

 cypher, where the accuracy of the decypherer is 



