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9* The name tam, or, as he corruptly writes it, 
tham, is taken by him for only part of a word j 
whereas it is a perfect and complete proper name, as 
moft clearly appears from the face of the infcrip- 
tion, and from lome antient writers of good autho- 
rity, who will hereafter be referred to in thefe 
remarks. 
io. He has not tranllated the words mn> 03, 
tidjs‘ 7, ’no, ; i&s, cbyhy >nra ddo, oSy, though 
they form lb confiderable a part of this monument ; 
and though a tranllation of them is fo eflentially ne- 
• ceflary, in order to arrive at a true interpretation of 
the infcription. 
In confirmation of what has been here advanced, 
I [hall beg leave to fubjoin a fhort and concife ex- 
plication of this infcription; which, I flatter myfelf, 
will not be found very remote from truth, as it is 
confonant to the faith of hiflory, and fupported by 
two or three Greek authors of very confiderable note 
amongft the learned. 
It may, however, be previoufly requifite to ob- 
ferve, that the plate hereunto annexed [Tab. XXV.] 
exhibits the nioft perfect reprefentation of this mo- 
nument, both with regard to the magnitude of the 
ftone, and the forms and fize of the letters, that can 
poflibly be communicated to the learned world. As 
the copy therefore now prefented to the public is the' 
relult of a frefh and molt careful examination of the 
autograph itfelf, and by me, fince the publication of 
the Marmora Oxoniensia, immediately deduced 
fiom it ; this may be confidercd as the mod accurate 
tranfeript of our Citiean infcription, in all refpeds, 
that has hitherto appeared. 
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