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Regis Mithradatis Eupatoris Eutych . . filii Mi- 
thradatis Euergetae Dionyfius Nef. .jius At he^ 
nienjis gymnafio praefeffus pofuit ftatuam. 
* -• . a A A) . ? S f *l vA 
It appears highly probable by thefe infcriptions, 
that there was a gymnajium (i), or college, at that 
time in ‘Delos. And the fame writer obferves, that 
near to the former he found eleven pillars Banding 
without chapiters, and others lying on the ground. 
At which place, as he fais, the inhabitants of the 
neighbouring iflcs (for Delos was then uninhabited) 
have a tradition, that a college antiently (food ; and 
he further adds, that the corfairs ftill continue to 
call this ifland by the name of 7 loefchools (2). And 
therefore it is not improbable, that this cup, which 
fome years fince was found in the port of Antium , 
and (as Dr. Eococke fais) is now placed among the 
antiquities of the capitol at Rome, might formerly 
have been brought from that ifland: and the name 
Eupatoridae given to thofe of the college, in honour 
of this king Mithridates , their benefa&or ; who 
feems to have been pleafed with the name Eupator , 
aferibed to him in the latter infeription, fince he 
built a city in Eaphlagonia , which he called Eupa- 
toria , as we are told by Eliny (3) and Appian ( 4 ). 
By the latter of whom we learn alfo, that he was 
fond 
(1) By the word gymvafium among the Greeks was meant a num- 
ber of contiguous buildings, with portico’s and open walks, Co dif- 
pofed as to be fitted, fome for bodily exercifo, and others for the 
ftudy of the liberal arts and fcicnces. 
(2) Tom. I. tag. 177. 
