RHODES. 285 
By the Indus is here meant the river ofyEthiobia. chap. 
"l T" I T T 
The Greeks before the time of Alexander had no ^ -^ ' ■ 
knowledge of India. Thus jEschylus conducts 
his heifer down the Indus to the Cataracts of the 
Nile\ 
Upon a mass of marble, in the street before 
the Greek Convent, we also observed the fol- 
lowing record of an offering to Jupiter the Saviour y 
by the persons whose names are mentioned : 
IHNnNNAOYNOY 
APAAIOZnPOZENOS 
A I I Z n T H P I 
A circumstance occurs annually at Rhodes pagan 
which deserves the attention of the literary ^''^"''^"y- 
traveller : it is the ceremony of carrying Silenus 
in procession at Easter. A troop of boys, 
crowned with garlands, draw along, in a car, a 
Inscription (See Vol. I. p. 268.) ; because their copy confirmed our own, as 
to the words AAAFOT and nONTflPEnX; while, in oiuer respects, it is so 
imperfect, as to be unintelligible without the assistance of the more correct 
reading here offered. The Classical Reader will be interested in remark- 
ing, that Aristophanes, in the iJt^tXai, uses the expression of the Rhodian 
poet: 
E(V ugn NEIAOT nPOXOAlS viaran. 
(2) Tims in Rufflnus {Eccl. Hist. lib. i. c. 9.) and Socrates Scholasticut 
(/i6. i. c. 1 9.) mention is made of the introduction of Christianity into India, 
three hundred years after tlie Christian sera, when Frumentius was 
j^pointed Bishop of tlie ^ixumi ; meaning tliercby Abyssinia: for it is 
said of India by Socrates, that it joias to ^Ethiopia. 
