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ret! . . detee itattt eweue me ey e oete ponamachche : 



aSiK7]ffri to nvrijAa tovto eZlwXea Kat 7rav(o\ea sir} 



violates tomb this 



aladauade : ada : 4 

 avTu> itavT(s)V 



let him 'pay a fine adas . . . 



In the first paragraph the Greek and Lycian 

 correspond almost word for word, but in the 

 conclusion they differ entirely; the Greek ver- 

 sion denounces curses upon the violator of the 

 tomb, while the Lycian threatens him with a 

 fine. This will be better seen in analysing the 

 whole in detail. 



iwieinu, the neuter of the demonstrative this. 



itatu, a tomb or monument, in the Greek fiv-qfia. 

 It is apparently the passive participle of a verb 

 signifying to bury, of which there are several 

 tenses used in other inscriptions (see the Appen- 

 dix to Sir C. Fellows's Lycia, p. 482). The 

 author at first thought the initial short vowel the 

 augment, and connected the verb with rS^yn ; 

 but as the same vowel occurs in the participle, 

 it is probably part of the form of the verb. Pro- 

 fessor Grotefend gave another turn to the sen- 

 tences in which the verb itatu, &c. occurs, by 

 translating it transgress but the inscription 



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