MERGE TO GYRENE. 
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throw light upon the nature of the buildings, and to ascertain the 
period at which they were erected. There must be a considerable 
number of those buried in different parts of the city ; for we never 
saw an ancient town in which fewer inscriptions are to be seen than 
that of Cyrene ; especially for a town in which literature and the fine 
arts were cultivated with so much success. The few which we copied 
are scarcely worth inserting, and we shall only give (in addition to 
that over the fountain) another in Doric Greek, which is given by 
Signor Della Celia, in the reading of which we also differ in some 
respects from his copy. It was found upon a stone bearing the form 
of a pedestal, immediately without the wall above mentioned ; and the 
Doctor has suggested that the remains of a female statue, seated in a 
chair, which is lying in the road not far from it, was the representa- 
tion of Claudia Arete, the matron, in commemoration of whose bene- 
volence and virtue the inscription in question was erected by the 
Cyreneans. We give it below *, but are not of opinion that the 
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