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DELPHI. 
CHAP. 
VI. 
And within the sanctuary, behind the altar, we 
saw the fragments of a marble Bcma, or Cathedra; 
upon the back of which we found the following in- 
scription, exactly as it is here written, no part of 
it having been injured or obliterated; affording, 
perhaps, the only instance known of a sepulchral 
inscription upon a monument of this remarkable 
form : 
1 
XPHZTOZC^ 
n PflTOYOEZZA 
AOZA APEIZAIOZ 
HEAAZrinTHZ 
ETIIN . 1 H 
H pn z 
It is in honour of a youth of Larissa in Thessabj, 
who died at eighteen years of age. As to the 
words "x^^rifrrog and n^ag, it maybe remarked that 
all the epitaphs upon Larissceans, which Spon has 
preserved, contain these words'. There were 
many cities having the name of Larissa; conse- 
quently the city of v/hich the youth here 
(1) Vid. Spvn. Miscell. Antiq. 531. 
