}m RUINS OF ORCnOMENUS. 
CHAP, notices the cause of its destruction'. Its most 
<■ antient name was Minyeia; and its inhabitants 
were called Minyeans long after the name 
of the city was changed to Orchomenus. They 
are mentioned, under this appellation, in the 
verses that were inscribed upon the Tomb of 
Hesiod}. A colony from Orchomenus founded 
Teas. In the days of its prosperity it was 
(1) JS«ot. c. 38. p. 779. ed. iTwAn. (2) Ibid. p. 787. 
" In another, lately found at Oropus, and of which I have been faroured 
with a copy : 
^. , , ev KA e2yeP6)? xjj ufAH ecvTVi y»i x.r, Vvr,i»i EPn A 
5. . . A««v KYi ccn-pccXKctv Kin cKrovXtxf x.vi TraXiUM kti tPKua^ .... 
(J « ycty jc» fcurx &oc>,cirrctV, Bcc. 
" In another, on the same slab, 
7. «««? EFFA2IN x» F<5-« .... 
8. Kti KUTu yxv y.n x-ctjct, 6 . . . . 
9. cua-df, &c. 
" The Reader will easily supply them from each other. The troublesoroe 
word EIIASIN or EXIIIASIN will shortly be either corrected ot ex- 
plained by a Scholar of the first eminence. 
"i.27, 28. EKA[2T0N E]NIATTON. Dr. Clark. 
*' First Inscr. lines 3, 4. The marble seems rather to have XPIOZi^ 
than XH02. This was pointed out to me by one of the Gentlemen at 
the Museum. May it not be right, taking it for xpi'i * debt ? 
•' In the seventh Orchomenian Inscription, read, lines 6 and 7, Iru; 
tyatti TiSt 9t>Xireiu» rii iiavrtt ^n MtiXi^^iu. This is the preamble of a dt- 
cree ; as in one quoted by Demosthenes, c. Timocr. p. 446. ed. Paris. 
(708, Reiske.) lifuxparfit iivtw "Otrui at vk Ufa. iinrai r>f." 
Communicated ly the Rev. P. P. Dobree, Fellow »/ Trinity 
College, Cambridge. 
