74 THEBES. 
^^L^' '^^^^ following is a literal translation of the 
original : 
"my PARENTS, HONOURING MY BODY, WEPT AROUND A 
SENSELESS TOMB, SINCE SUCH IS THE TRIBUTE TO THE 
dead: but I, A SOUL, WENT TO THE ABODE SUITED TO ME 
MY NAME WAS NEDYMUS, IN TRUTH THE GENTLE SON OF 
THE ITALIAN ADAE. I HAD NOT EXISTED LONG IN A 
PREVIOUS STATE; THEN I WAS BORN TO NUMBER A FEW 
YEARS, ALWAYS IN MOTION, HAVING MY PECULIAR COURSE 
TO RUN, FROM WHICH I COULD NOT ESCAPE; FOR THE 
DESTINY WHICH IS ASSIGNED TO EACH MAN, THAT HS 
MUST FULFIL; SINCE KINGS MUST DO THE SAME. MY 
FATHER ZOSIMUS WROTE THESE LINES ON MY ACCOUNT, 
FEELING AN IMMORTAL REGRET FOR AN IMMORTAL SOUL." 
Upon the north side of the same Soros there 
is also an inscription; but the buttress of one of 
the arched niches of the altar of the chapel has 
been erected against it, in such a manner as to 
leave only a few of the characters visible. 
Upon a slab near this tomb we also saw the 
following: 
EniZHNllNIHP 
AKAIAOYXPHZ * 
TOY 
The chapel seems evidently to have beea 
ereqted posterior to the construction of the 
tomb, from the manner in which one of its 
