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The inscription records the consecration of a stoa, and all 
things belonging to it, to Tiberius Claudius Caesar German!- 
eus, the emperor, and to Julia Augusta Agrippina, his wife*, 
and their children, and to Minerva of Ilium. The reason 
why the Emperor Claudius and his children were honoured by 
the Ilienses, is given by Suetonius and Tacitus.* Eckhel 
mentions, I know not on what authority, a fang consecra¬ 
ted to the Ilian Minerva, as having existed in the Pagus 
Iliensium, which Alexander adorned after his victory at Grain¬ 
cus.f Arrian states merely the offerings to Minerva of Ilium, 
making no mention of the fane; but Strabo, who expressly 
alludes to the temple, places it in the ITiensian city.J But 
whence originated the sanctity of this remarkable spot, still 
shaded by a grove of venerable oaks, beneath whose branches 
a multitude of votive offerings yet entirely cover the summit 
of the hill? An inscription commemorating the pious tribute 
of a people in erecting a portico to the family of Claudius 
Caesar and the Ilieau Minerva, can only be referred to the in- 
Iliensibus Imperator Claudius tributa in perpetuum remisit, oratore Nerpjia- 
Caesare. Eckhel. DoctriDaNurn. Vet. vol. ii. p. 483. Vindob . 1794. 
t Eckhel. Doct. Num. Vet. vol. ii. p. 483- Vindob. 1794. 
ITto 51 rwy 'him jrdAiv rnv Vuv. StrabvG’eoge, lib. xiii. p. m> Ed. Os,- 
