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lying horizontally, and serving as a horse-block. CHAP. 
When we drew near to examine it, we disco- 
vered that it had been placed upon the TOMB 
OF EUCLID OF HERMIONE, whom we found to 
be represented upon the upper part of the 
pillar, standing beneath an arch, in a philoso- 
pher's habit, and with a scroll in his hand. 
Beneath this figure, near to the base of the 
pillar, and upon the part of the stone which 
must have been buried when the Stele was 
erected, we observed the usual animal symbol 
of Anubis, the infernal Mercury, in the form of 
A DOG, rudely sketched upon the surface ; and 
over the arched recess, containing the figure of 
the philosopher, we read, in very legible cha- 
racters, this Inscription, in the Doric dialect, 
remarkable for the variation in the genitive 
cage: 
EYKAIAAS EYKAIAOY 
EPMIONEYZ 
" EUCLID SON OF EUCLID OF HERMIOXE." 
Of two celebrated philosophers who bore this 
name, the disciple of Socrates, as the first, was 
a native of Megara ; and the mathematician, 
as the second, flourished at Alexandria. The 
manner of the writing, the style of the sculp- 
ture, and the form of the arch, might induce an 
