VII. 
254 FROM THE HELLESPONT 
CHAP. The other Inscription is in the same wall, 
and relates to gladiatorial and hunting sports, 
exhibited by the persons mentioned in the in- 
scription. The expression (^uuJxia, MovoyAy^ojv 
occurs in an inscription found by Peyssonel at 
Cyzicum. This " troop of gladiators" had fought 
there, at the public games, when Aurelius Gratus 
was Asiarch ^. 
<|>AM I Al A MONO 
M AXilNKAIVnO 
MNHMAKYNHTE 
ZIXINNEMEPIOY 
KAZTPIKIOYHAKI?. 
NIANOYASIAPXOY 
KAIAYPHAIAZ 
Z A n<|)OYZn AA 
TUNOZAI Kl N N I A 
NHZA PXI EPEI HZ 
TYN Al KOZAYTOY 
All these islands, and the neighbouring coast 
of Asia Minor, produced illustrious men. Samos 
On which RuhnTien remarks : " Pro fflynttc, v. 3, et 5. scribendum 
tlyfiM. Sic enim jEschrion novam lunam vocabat a figure Sigmatis 
Graeci C. Ex quo loco refellitur, quod Is. Vossius et Ez. Spanhemius 
statuebant, banc sigrnatis figuram serius in Graecorura consuetudinem 
venisse. Nam ^schrion, sive Saraius sit, siveMitylenaeus, certfevetus- 
tus scriptor est." Vide Jonsium de Script. Hist. Phil. ii. 2. p.l2'i. 
(l) Recueil d'Antiquites, torn. II. p. 219. Par. 1T56. 
