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Regis Nicomedis nepotis regis Nicomedis Epiphanis 
EDiofcorides ’DioJ'condis Ramnufius praefeEius 
gymnafio ftatuam pofuit. 
King Nicomedes , to whofe honour this infcription 
was ere&ed, is here called tyyov®*, that is grand- 
fon , of Nicomedes Epiphanes king of Bithynia. 
Which feems to confirm the account of Appian, 
who gives the name Nicomedes to the three laft 
Bithynian kings. The firft of whom being, as he 
fais, the fon of Brufias (and here (filed Epiphanes ) 
was fucceded firft by his fon Nicomedes Bhilopator, 
and then by his grandfon, whom he calls barely 
Nicomedes , without fubjoining any cognomen , agre- 
ably to this infcription. And he further adds, that 
it was this laft, who left his kingdom to the Roman 
people by his will (i). Which bequeft was made in 
the year of the city 679, and was foon followed by 
their third and laft war with MithridatesEnpator (2). 
Some have fupp.ofed this account of Jlppian to be 
erroneous, through a miftake in the copies 5 becaufe 
other writers generally mention but one Bithynian 
king, as fuccefi'or to Nicomedes Epiphanes , who was 
alfo named Nicomedes , made the Roman ftate his 
heir, and has been taken for his fon (3). But the 
infcription, by calling this latter the grandfon of the 
former, as Appian does, corroborates his account 5 
who likewife fais exprefly, that his fon Rhilopator 
was 
(1) Bom. Hijl. pag. 175, ed. Steph. 
(2) Pigh. Annal. Rom. 
{ 3) See Vaillant , Acbemened. imper. Tom. II. pag. 345, 354. 
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