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mains of antiquity generally termed the ruins of 
Perfepolis j which have been publifhed both by 
(31) Sir John Chardin and Dr. Hyde, as well 
as in the 17th (32) volume of the Philosophical 
TranfaSiions . The Palmyrene infcriptions have ei- 
ther been fo inaccurately taken, or fo injured by time, 
that only the two firft words of them, "D pa, which 
in both appear the fame, are legible. But thefe 
are fufficient, with the afliftance of the Greek ones, 
that have not much better efcaped, to point out to 
us both the language and the character in which 
they were originally drawn. For the Palmyrene 
terms are equivalent (33) to PERSPICVA SPECIES, 
CLARA SIMILITVDO, PVRA FIGVRA, THE 
APPARENT LIKENESS, THE CLEAR RE- 
SEMBLANCE, THE TRUE IMAGE, THE 
REAL MIEN or PORTRAIT ; which by the cor- 
refpondent Greek words, TOTTO TO riPOCcunON, 
the lad; of which in the firft infcription has been 
miferably deformed, are, with tolerable juftice and 
propriety, exprefled. The Greek letters, APZA . . 
ClAtoCBACIAf u/N, in the firft infcription, 
clearly prefent to our view, in Parthian Greek, 
(31 ) Voyages de Monjienr Le Chevalier Chardin, en Perfe, oV, 
Tome Troiiteme, p. 09. A Amfterdam, 17 it. Hyd. Re}. Vet . 
PerfHiJl. Append, p.518, 519. See alfo Voyages de Corn, le Bruyr, 
Tom. iv. p. 361 . 
(32) Philofcpk. Tranfatt. Vol. xvii. n. 201. p. 775, 776. 
(33) Val. Schind. Lex Pentaglot. p. 238, 983. Ed nr. Caft. Tex. 
Heptaglot. p. 422, 2014. 
Vox. 49. 
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