594 M E G A R A. 
GHAP. the second century occupied, in their mere enu- 
meration, six chapters of ^Pausanias description 
of Greece?) that, excepting its name, it retains 
hardly any thing to remind us of its former con- 
sideration. The first Inscription that we found 
here was " in honour of Callinicus, Scribe and 
Gymnasiarch." It was written upon a large 
stone, twelve feet in length, placed in front of 
an antient gateway leading from the city 
towards the sea. This is the identical Inscrip- 
tion which Wkder has published a ; and we dis- 
covered it exactly as it was left by him. The 
next is an Inscription which -he did not observe ; 
and it is much worthy of notice. We saw it at 
the house of the Archon where we lodged : it is 
in honour of HADRIAN, whose usual titles are 
added. From the title of OLYMPIUS, once be- 
stowed by the Athenians upon Pericles 3 , and 
answering to AIO2, we are able to ascertain the 
date of this Inscription ; which is of the year of 
Christ 132*. It sets forth, that under the care 
of Julius the Proconsul, and in the Prte tor ship of 
(l) Fragments of the Lapis Conchites mentioned by Pausanias 
(Attic, c. 44. p. 107. td. Kuhnit), and vestiges of the " long walls," 
were observed at flfegara, by Mr. Walpole and Professor Palmer. 
('2} See ff/teler's " Journey into Greece," p. 434. Land. 1G82. , 
(3) Vid. Plutarch, in fin. Pcricl. 
(4) Vid. Corsini Fast. Alt. Diss. xi. 
