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111. In the circular line MifaotJ'aTvs is put for 
Mi9gi<P<zTti$y as his name is ufually writen. And fo 
it is ipclt in two other infcriptions, both found by 
Spon in the ifle of ‘Delos , at a confiderable diftancc 
from each other, and publifhcd in his Voyage d ltalie 
etc (i). The like fpelling may alfo be feen both on 
the coins of this prince ( 2 ), and in the edition of 
Tacitus publifhed by Lipjius . Thefe infcriptions 
were cut on the remaining pedeftals of two ftatues, 
which had formerly been placed there, one in ho- 
nour of Mithridates Euergetes the father of this 
prince, and the other of himfelf. I fhall here tran- 
feribe them both, as they will ferve to illuftrate that 
on the cup. The former runs thus : 
BA2IAE02 MIOPAAATOT 
ETEPTETOT 2EAETK02 
MAPA0ONIO2 r,T M N A 
2IAPXPN. 
In Latin : 
Regis Mithradatis Euergetae Seleucus 
Marathonius gymnaJJo praefeclus 
ftatuam pofuit. 
The latter is as follows : 
BA2IAE02 MI0PAAATOT ET 
FIATOPOS ETTTX TOT 
MI0PAAATOT ETEPrETOT 
AIONT2IOS NE2 N02 
A0HNAIO2 TTMNA2IAPXH 
2A2 ANE0HKEN. 
In Latin : 
Regis 
1 
( 1 ) Tom. hi. pag. 8 6. 
( 2 ) Numifm. Pembroch. Par. 11 . tab. 66. 
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