ON LYCIAN INSCRIPTIONS. 237 



se ey e is here translated eav & ng, which was 

 analysed under the last inscription. If we adhere 

 as closely as we can to the Greek, which is our 

 safest course, we must connect teede with aSiKrjari ; 

 as the latter word occurs in the bilingual in- 

 scription at Leveesy, we look for the same word 

 to answer to it in the Lycian part of that in- 

 scription, and there we have tee preceding the 

 words this tomb. The termination de is fre- 

 quently an enclytic : if we regard it so in this 

 instance, there would remain in both inscriptions 

 tee for the verb violate, and to this we have an 

 analogy in the Greek verb Saiw ; but then there 

 is no word of a similar form to answer to ayopao?]. 

 If we drop that verb for the present, we can 

 have no difficulty in translating teke mutu by this 

 tomb: the first of the two words is analogous 

 to OrtKti and the Latin theca ; the second is very 

 close to mute, which we find frequently in the 

 Lycian inscriptions as a demonstrative pro- 

 noun. 



It is difficult to make anything of the last 

 line, which appears to contain a great deal more 

 than the Greek counterpart. It is to be hoped 

 that we may attain another copy of the inscrip- 

 tion, for neither of those yet received is en- 



