112 PLAIN OF TROY. 
CHAP. This Inscription sets forth that the tribe Attalis 
> commemorated Sextus Julius Festus, a magistrate 
of the city, and praefect of the Flavian cohort, 
who had been Gymnasiarch, and had given 
magnificently and largely, to the senators and 
to all citizens, oil and ointment for some public 
festival, 
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Notes on the Upper Inscription. 
Line 5. The word Flaiian shews the inscription to he of the time of 
yespasian or Domitian. 
I 8. In an Itiscription found at Delphi we have the same expression, 
" Primum inter eos qui unquam fuerunt." Murat. Inscript. 
632. 2. 
I 13. " Jntelligi iXt/tptiv debere de publico quodam festo quo cites 
laute exeipiehantur, quibus in occasionihus notum est pretiosn 
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