358 ALEXANDRIA. 
CHAP, by Hesiod and by Homer, is perhaps unknown iu 
Greek prose. Hadrian was called, by the Greeks ', 
both AAPIANOC OAYMniOC and 0EOC 
OAYMmOC. The epithet Aiog was conse- 
quently appropriate*; and the more so, as it was 
poetical ; the language of poetry being often 
adopted in Greek inscriptions, which are very 
commonly written in metre'. At the same 
time, it must be confessed that there is this 
powerful objection to the reading now proposed; 
that among all the epithets applied to Roman 
Emperors, which are preserved by Gronovius, 
Goltzins, Gorius, Muratori, Faillant, Harduin, and 
Eckhel, there is not an example where A/ocis thus 
used. In this uncertainty with regard to the 
four letters which immediately follow AlO in 
this Inscription, it must remain for some future 
(l) See Muratoi'i's " Thesaur. Vet. Inscript." torn. II. p. mlix. iVo. 2. ; 
/?. MLxvi. A'o. 4. ; /?. MLXXViii. A'o. 7. 8fc. Mediolani. 1"! 40. Harduin. 
IVum.y^nHq.p.329. Perm, 1684. kho Faillant. Ntim. Imp. pp. 34, 3S. 
Ij.Par.}6i)S. Spanlieim mentions an /Jthenian medal with this 
inscription to Hadrian : OATMniON • SilTHPA ■ TON' ■ ETEPrETHM ■ 
De Preeslantid et Usu Num. p. 384. Amst. 1671. 
(3) The Bishop of Cloqher, in his Essay on the " Origin of Hiero- 
glyphics, and on the Heathen Mythology" p. 116. Land. 1753. has the 
following observation. "In Greek, the word A'a; signifies the same as 
the wordi)u'«* amung the Latins; that is, a divine person. 
(3) Such inscriptions are commonly found in Asia Minor, and among 
the ruins of Paphos in Cyprus; also in the Island of Rhodes. See 
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