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FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE CRIMEA, ’ 
chap, rouble. To us the sale was prohibited, because 
— v ' we were strangers ; and, worse than all, we were 
Englishmen. Commodore Billings particularly 
insisted, that the consequences would be serious 
to the inhabitants, if it were told to the Emperor 
that Englishmen had been allowed to remove 
any thing of this description: so the Cippus of 
Theagenes was left to its fate. As a bas-relief, 
it represented the philosopher and his wife. 
The drapery of these figures manifested the 
degree of perfection which the art of sculpture 
had attained in the Chersonesus, and thereby 
illustrated and confirmed the observations of 
Pliny'. The philosopher held in his left hand 
a scroll, in form and size resembling the manu- 
scripts found in Pompeii. His feet were bound 
in sandals. His wife, in a Grecian habit, wore a 
long robe, which seemed to fall negligently in 
folds to the ground. They both appeared to be 
in the prime of life : and beneath their feet was 
the following inscription: 
OEArENHZXPHZTinNOZ . KAI 
HTYNHAYTOY . OYAniA . MA 
KAPIAETftNZEfrNBXAiPE 
;l) Pracipui nitons,” (says the historian, speaking of Heraclea 
Chersonesus, which had formerly borne the name of Megarice,) 
in toto co tractu, custodies Gracia moribus.” Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. iv. 
