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the name T) ionyfius from his patron Mithridates , who 
befides the name Eupator afliimed alfo that of ‘Dio- 
nyfus as the fame author relates (i). But the fccond 
name of this latter prefident Nef. . . .nus being im- 
perfect, I am at a lofs how to fill it up. 
IV. The letters next following 'Evi ralwp upon the 
cup I take to ftand for ro?s trios ; tho they are ftrangely 
confufed, by reafon of a miftake, which leans to 
have'been made at firft in writing the infeription. 
In the word yv^rao-lv the two letters ret are united 
in one character. And as to the exprefilon bios 
yvjjLvctcrrd, which here refers to place, and not to time, 
as it more ufually does; Hefychius has, \ V tU tv 
awfji<x\osi Thavorimis, trios oixtas 5 and -ApolloTiius 
Rhodius , as cited by H. Steph. trios ct'^eos- And in 
the word ’Euxa^/<ra/£, the letters ar are put for 
<f, and £ for 5. 
V. Of the two Taft words upon the cup, which 
(as has been obferved) ftand feparate from the reft, 
the former is a proper name ; but whether the firft 
character in it was defigned only for a F, or a com- 
bination of the two letters FO, I am not certain. 
In the following word without the augment, 
for fieawo-e, % is put for a- 5 and likewife £, as in the 
preceding word ’Eu 7 rct 1 ogi'aTcti£. I fhould have been 
led to imagine, that Gypha , or Gupha , might be 
the name of the fculptor, and g ftand for 
c Pie^uae, exfculpjit or perfcidpfit ; it being a common 
pra&ice for artifts to fet their own names to their 
works ; had it not appeared an obje&ion to this, 
that 
(1) Ibid. pag. 250. See alfo Plut. Sympof. L. I; q. 6. 
