IV. 
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Inscrip- 
tions. 
PLAIN OF TROY. 1 1 1 
i-caly serpents. Of three Inscriptions which we ghap. 
copied among these Ruins, the first was en- 
graven upon the shaft of a marble pillar. This 
we removed, and brought to England. It is 
now in the Vestibule of the Public Library at 
Cambridge; and it commemorates the public 
services of a Phrontistes of Drusus Ccesar'. The 
names of persons belonging to the family of 
Germanicus occur frequently among the Inscrip- 
tions found in and near Troas. Drums, the 
son of Germanicus, was himself appointed to 
a government in the district. The second 
Inscription has been once before printed, but 
most erroneously: it will therefore now be 
offered to the Public, in a more accurate form*. 
Whatsoever tends to illustrate the origin of the 
Ruins in which it was discovered, will be con- 
sidered valuable ; although, after all, we remain 
in a state of the greatest uncertainty with 
regard to the city alluded to in either of these 
documents. Possibly it may have been Scaman- 
dria ; but in the multitude of cities belonging to 
Troas, a mere conjecture, without any positive 
evidence, is only less pardonable than silence. 
(3) This Inscription has been ah-eady published in the account given 
of the Greek Marbles at Cambridge. See p. 43. No. XXI. of that 
Work. 
(-^ ) It was also since copied by Mr. Watpole, from whose copy it is 
here given, accompanied by his Notes. See the following page. 
