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permitted us to copy. It is, perhaps, nearly chap. 
as antient as the well-known Inscription 
now placed in the vestibule of the Library of 
Trinity College, Cambridge, which was brought 
from Sigeian by Edward Worthy Montague ; 
although, in the uncertainty which involves the 
series of the Syrian kings, it be impossible to 
determine its precise date. Antiochus, in the 
year 196 a.c. went into the Thracian Cher so- 
jiesus, to establish a kingdom there and in the 
neighbouring country, for Seleucus, his second 
son \ It is, however, difficult to discover any 
particular incident, in the history of the Seleu- 
cidcv, alluded to by the first part of the inscription. 
Antiochus was wounded in some battle ; and 
Metrodorus probably afforded him assistance. 
The purport of the inscription is not very clear, 
until we arrive at the eighth line : we there see 
that '^Metrodorus of AmphipoUs, the son of Timo- 
cles, is praised hy the senate and people, for his 
virtue and good-ivill towards the kings Antiochus and 
Seleucus, and the people : he is deemed a benefactor 
to the state ; is to have access to the senate ; and to 
be inscribed into the tribe and fraternity to which he 
may luish to belong.'' No attempt, except in a 
letter or two, has been made towards the resto- 
ration of the first part of the Inscription; the 
(l) Z/iv. lib. xxxiii. Appian.ixx Syriacis, Prideaux, Part 2. 
