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in the declensions, and avoid a termination in 

 of which there is no other instance. 



The first line is in the usual phraseology ; but 

 in the second line, instead of the formula pre- 

 viously met with, stating for whom the tomb 

 is intended, we have another expression, me 

 itepetute, &c, clearly answering a similar purpose. 

 In many Greek inscriptions from Lycia, we find 



tovto to /uvrijuia £7riypcn£e zavrto km, &C, Or Some 



similar expression, and these suggest the trans- 

 lation of the word before us to be inscribed to or 

 registered for. The whole form of these inscrip- 

 tions shows them to be title-deeds of the tombs, 

 and it is reasonable to expect in them the use 

 of the same formal expressions which we find 

 in the Greek inscriptions at a later period in 

 the same localities. 



Meitepetute and teitepetade are each written as 

 one word ; but it has been already remarked, 

 that many of the smaller words are not sepa- 

 rated by stops. Of the verb to which itepetade 

 belongs, we find many forms in different inscrip- 

 tions; and in No. 16, which has a phraseology 

 very similar to this, we have mune itepetute 

 used in the same manner, so that there can be 

 no doubt that we must consider me and te as 



