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Eat I return to the infcriptlon on the cup, which, 
as 1 apprehend, may be thus read in the common 
Greek characters. 
M N A 
BA2IAET2 MI0PAAATH2 ETriATUP 
T0I2 EXT02 TOT TTMNA2IOT ETnAT0Pl2TAIZ 
TT$A vel TOT4A aiasqze. 
In Latin thus : 
Monumentnm dedit 
Rex Mithradates Eupator Eupatoridis 
in gymnafto [vel intra gymndfium\ 
Gypha [vel Gnpha. ] ftrvavit. 
I. The letters mna ftand by themfelves over the 
reft, which are placed below them in the form of a cir- 
cle ; which circle is made up of the four legments here 
put one under another, when united in one orbicular 
line. And the fituation of thefe three letters in the 
annexed draught fhews, over what words of the cir- 
cular part they are placed. All the words from 
BA 2 IAET 2 to ETITATOPI2T aiz take in above half the 
circumference of the rim of the cup 5 and the divi- 
fion of this laft word was occafioned, as I fuppofe, 
by one of the handles being fixed there. The two 
laft words ftand at a confiderable diftance from the 
reft, on the remaining part of the rim. 
II. If thofe three letters above the reft are not a 
date, they may, as I conjecture, ftand for y.n\JLoa\jvov 
tfwx.e for eS'coxs, without the augment. Where the 
word fjLvnfj.oavi'Qv feems to be ufed in the fame fenfe, 
as we meet with it in Catullus , when he fais, Verum 
eft fjLvnf/.ocrvvQv mei fodalis (1). 
III. 
(1) Epigram, ad Afinium. 
