284 RHODES. 
CHAP, brevity used by the Greeks in their inscriptions, we 
' — ,— ^ might improve our national taste in this respect. 
How^ much more impressive is the style they 
adopted, than our mode of writing upon public 
monuments, where a long verbose composition 
is exhibited, relating to things of which it cannot 
concern posterity to be informed ! In other ages, 
however, the Greeks of the Rhodian territories 
had the custom of adding to their simple 
inscriptions ^n hexameter distich. Of this we saw 
many instances; but shall subjoin one, as it 
appeared upon the pedestal of a marhle column 
at Rhodes : this pedestal had been bored, and 
placed over the mouth of a well in the inner 
basin of the principal harbour'. The inscription 
is interesting, because it relates to an artist of 
the country, Amphilochus the son of Lcigus, who 
was probably an architect : 
AM<!>IAOXOY 
TOYAAArOY 
nONTflPEnZ 
HKElKAINEIAOYnPOXOAZKAIEPEZXATONINAON 
TEXNAZAM<l>IAOXOIOMErAKAEOZA<i)0ITONAEI 
"THE GREAT AND IMMORTAL GLORY OF THE ART 
OF AMPHILOCHUS REACHES EVEN TO THE MOUTHS 
OF THE NILE AND TO THE UTMOST INDUS." 
(1) After our return to England, we were gratified by finding that 
Egmont and Heyvian, half a century before, had also noticed this 
Inscription 
