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AXUM. 
9 rag ; the first letter is imperfect in the inscription ; by the con- 
text sfjcHJ/, wherefore, would be the proper sense, but the sigma 
seems perfect, mg with avToig is redundant. 
10 oca-iv is the only word I cannot make out, and the only one in 
which I suspect the copy of the inscription. 
1 1 I read this Poio-iXiKncoig, the diminutive, in contemptuous oppo- 
sition to l3oc(riX£vg, l3xa-iXecav. si is by the ear for i. 
1 2 BTT oiyoi9u, for the success already obtained, and in hopes of future 
protection. Our vulgarism, /or luck sake, I believe, 
precise. 
The following is as correct a translation of the inscription, as I have 
been able to make, with the assistance of Dr. Vincent and other 
friends. 
(We) Aeizanas sovereign of the Axomites and 
Homerites and Rhaeidan and the ^Ethi- 
opians and Sabaeites and of Silee 
and of Tiamo and the Bougaeitse and To 
Kaens king of kings son of God 
the invincible Mars,— when the nation of the Bougaeitae 
upon a particular occasion were in a state of insurrection 
(We) sent our brothers 
Saiazana and Adephas 
to conduct the war against them, and upon 
their surrender, [my brothers] after subduing them 
brought them to me, with their children and with their 
oxen to the number of and their sheep 
to the amount of . . and beasts bearing burthens on their backs 
