64 THEBES. 
regard to the cure of an ague ; since there is 
no part of Europe where the nostrums recom- 
mended as remedies for that disorder are so 
barbarous as among the middle, and sometimes 
among the higher classes of society in our own 
country. 
t^ThtblT '^^^^ antiquities of Thehes principally claimed 
our attention. In coming from the gate into 
the town, near a public fountain, there is an- 
antient buttress or bastion, where, upon a large 
block of stone, we found one of those affecting 
inscriptions, of which two were given in the 
account of the island of Cos^; commemorating, 
as public benefits, the examples of women, who 
had rendered themselves illustrious by their 
virtues. 
HBOYAHKAIOAHMOZ . . . . 
GEOrEITONOZnEM 
. . OY . rVNAIKAAPETHXKAF 
Xn<l>POZYNHSENEKEN 
It sets forth, that "the Senate and the 
People (Ao;2o?<r) THE daughter ofTheogiton, 
the wife" of some person whose name is partly 
lost, "on account of her virtue and 
MODESTY." 
(OVid.PWw. Hist. Nat. lib. XXXV. c.ll.tom.ni. p. 444. L. Bat. 
1G35. 
