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fond of fine ornaments, and elegant furniture j and 
had made a vaft collection of them, of which vafes 
were always efteemed a confiderable part (i). The 
imperfeCt word etttx. which follows Eupatoris in 
the fame infeription, may perhaps hand for etttxot^, 
Eutychis , or Edicts > as that word occurs at length 
in another infeription difeovered by Spon in the fame 
ifland, of which the two names aiontsiot etttxot 
then only remained (2). Tho indeed I have not met 
with that name elfewhere aferibed to Mithridates ; 
notwithftanding Cicero mentions a large catalogue 
of extravagant titles, which had been heaped upon 
him by his flatterers. Mithridatem , fais he, Deum, 
ilium Eatrem, ilium Confervatorem Afiae , ilium 
Euium, Nyjium, Bacchtim , Liberum nominal) ant (3). 
But yet it is pollible, that the title Eutyches might 
have been given him, on account of his great fuc- 
cefs in war for many years. As Sylla afterwards af- 
fumed that of Felix , for the like reafon; and upon 
his triumph at Rome , for his victory over that po- 
werful prince, had alfo his other titles of Confervator 
and Eater aferibed to him, as we are told by Elu • 
tarch (4,). Thefeinfcriptions give us alfo the names 
of two prefidents of that college, the former of whom 
is called Seleucus of Marathon 5 and the latter Dio- 
nyjius of Athens , who might, poflibly have taken 
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(1) Rom. Hifi. pag.i^\. ed . Steph, 
(2) Tom. in. pag. 87. 
(3) ProFlacc. c. 25. 
(4) Vit. Syll. Tom. v. p. 8 65. ed. Steph. See likewile Pighi: 
Annul, ad A. U. 672. 
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