FROM NICHOLAEF, 
The three foregoing inscriptions record the 
consecration of golden or silver images of Victory, 
in the Temple of Apollo , at Olbiopolis, dedicated 
to that God. A fourth, still more interesting 1 , 
serves to render conspicuous the prodigious 
importance annexed to the commerce of the 
Euxine by the citizens of Byzantium; the 
senate, people, and magistrates decree, that 
a golden statue of Orontes, the son of Abahus, 
should be placed in the Curia, and that a copy 
of the decree should be sent by letter to the 
magistrates of Olbiopolis, to shew them in what 
estimation he is held by the Byzantines. He is 
also made a citizen of Byzantium; and this 
privilege is granted to his descendants. Orontes, 
as well as his father, who was Governor of 
some part of the coast of the Euxine, had 
received hospitably, and encouraged, and 
bestowed many benefits upon, the Byzantines, 
who frequented that sea for commercial pur- 
poses. 
(O During the printing of these pages, the author discovered that 
this inscription had been already published by Dr. Chandler, in the 
Appendix to his Imcriptionxs Antiqna, p. !). JJut as the copy afforded 
by the learned Editor differs in some material points from that pro- 
cured by Mr. IValpote, a republication has been deemed expedient, 
wherein the various readings are noticed. 
