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Sigean, (73) Teian, and other antient infcriptions.. 
That they likewife applied three points for the repa- 
ration of their words, on (74) lome occafions, tho’ 
more rarely, as well as the Etrufcans, is not unknown, 
to thofe who have been converfant with the antiqui- 
ties of thele nations. I muft farther obferve, that 
this minute kind of mark, though generally termed 
a point, was originally of a triangular form; as may 
be inferred both from our Citiean infeription, in 
which fome of the minute black triangles plainly, 
appear, and one at lead: of thofe preferved by the 
tables of Gubbio (75), of . which fo accurate a 
tranfeript has been communicated by Sig. Gon to. 
the learned world. That thefe points are a. certain 
indication of a pretty remote antiquity, is by the mod 
competent judges of luch matters (76) readily al-. 
lowed. How far therefore this interpun&ion and. 
antient hiftory may confpire, in order to fettle the 
age of the monument under confideration here, I an\ 
next to inquire. 
Abdemon, the Citiean, one of the Periian (77) 
monarch’s friends, having been expelled Salamine. 
by Euagoras, that prince meditated the reduction of 
(73) Chilli. Antiquitat. Afial. p. 6, 14, 97, 98. Paul. 
M. Paciaud. Monument. Peloponnef. 207, 2C9— 21 3, 2 1 8 . Rom** 
1761. 
(74) Muf Veronenf. p. 407. Veronas, 
Gor. Muf.Etrufc . Vol. ill. P. IIP 
1749. Anton. Francifc. 
T. XVL Florentine, 
(75) Anton. Francifc. Gpr. Muf, Etrufc. Vol. I. Prolegorn, 
p. 55. Florentiae, 1737. 
(76) Vid, Chifli. Antiquitat. Ajiat. p. 3,^ 6, 14, 97. 
(77) Theopompus in Excerptis Photii, Cod. CLXXVI. 
lufcript. Cit. p. 24—28. Oxon. 1750. Diod. Sic. Bibl. Hi/ 1 . 
Lib. XVL p. 447. Ifocrat. Evag. p. 282. 
