QJLARKE^S ira^ls. 
hut in the multitude of cities belonging to Troas, a raqrB 
conjecture, without any positive evidence, is less pardonable 
than silence. The inscription, offering our only remaining 
due, sets forth, that the tribe Attalis commemorated Sextus 
Julius Festus, a magistrate of the dft/, and prefect of the Fla¬ 
vian cohort, who had been gymnasiarch, and given magnifi¬ 
cently and largely, to the senators and all citizens* oil at® 
ointment for some public festival. 
Sri ATT A A IX « 3 > Y A H 
IEZTON IOYAION *k 
TON KOZMONTHZ ft 
QAEQZEnAPXONZnEIPH 2 
M A B ! A N H Z r Y M N A X J A P 
XH X A N T AA A M n PiiX K AI «J> i 
AOTEIMTIZK At nRQ.TOH 
TSl N A 0 AIR N O X K A f 
MEXPINYNMONONEAAI 
OMETPHZANTATOYX 
TEBOYAEYTAZKAmO 
AElTAZn A MTAZKAIAA 
SSVANT AEKAOYTHPilM 
AHMEr 
The third inscription,, and perhaps the most important, had 
these remarkable words: 
O I ! A I E I C 
TO NO ATP I ON 0 EON 
AI N E IAN 
4,1 THE IITEANS TO THEIR COUNTRY’S ®0D, JE NSU.S.'" 
