184 RUINS OF CHyERONEA. 
CHAP, and the letters in the fourth ?Liid.Jifth were better 
. ^ . graven, and more legible^ than in the three 
preceding inscriptions. 
'* On the fifteenth day of the month Alalcomenius 
(October), Philoxenus being Archon, Alexon, the son 
OF Rhodon, dedicates his own slave Dionysia, as 
SACRED to the GoD SeRAPIS, HAVING REMAINED BLAME- 
LESS WITH HIM, ALL HER LIFE. He MAKING THE DEDICA- 
TION THROUGH THE COUNCIL, ACCORDING TO THE LAW." 
In \hQjlfih and last inscription, the dedication 
of the slave is made in the month Bucatius 
{January^), " the sons of Craton andEugita 
CONSENTING THERETO." 
In the evening we returned, by the same road, 
again to Lebadca, and had a fine prospect of the 
town. About half an hour's distance from it, 
there is a fountain. The stream which we crossed 
- before, in the morning, by a bridge, is not 
the Hercyna, but one of its branches : this river 
becomes divided, and distributes itself into 
(1) For the order of the Boeotian months, the Reader is referred to Mr. 
Walpole's Notes upon some of the Inscriptions we found afterwards at 
OacHOMENUs. The word MEN02 Mr. IFalp. Ic thinks ^hould he written 
MEIN02,theBcBo</fin5 using EI for H: but we have thought it right to print 
our copy as it was made from the original, believing it to be written MEN02, 
and MHNOS, upon the Marble. ''In the Achnrnenses of Aristophanes (it is 
observed by Mr. Walpolc) the Boeotian says QiiQah. See the passage frona 
JEustathius, cited by Brunch, on v. 867 of that play." 
