122 CLARKE'S TRAVELS. : 
more particular description. In the interior of the town,-- by a 
public fountain, is a large cubic block of marble, whereon the 
inhabitants are accustomed to rvash the bodies of dead persons. 
For this reason, it was difficult to obtain their permission to turn 
the stone, in search of an inscription; and still more so, to copy 
the legend we there found, when we had so done. At last, 
however, I succeeded in transcribing the following characters: 
these form part of an inscription in honour of some one who 
had filled the offices of Agoranomos, of president of the games, 
and Gipnnasiarch : he is celebrated for his piety toward the DU 
Avgusii , and for Ids courteousness* toward the college, f 
A r G PANG M H Z A N T 
A A r N nXAf llN O 0E T H 
2 A N T A E Y Z E B il X E fl S 
A H TEYIA NT AT li N ' 
TAZZEBAZ T A’ZP E A X H5 PH N 
E'YAPEZrnZrYMNAXI APXH 
S A N T A TUN FI P E X B Y T E PIX N 
XEMNUZA S ATET AN . 
EZTOZOEOSIEB AITOI 
EYXEBEl ANK A I AIATANE2 
TOIYXTAMA4* 1 A0 4>P0IY 
NAM- PYNO SAIXAPIN. 
Two other Inscriptions were pointed out to us, in the wall of 
a narrow street, by the French consul, a very intelligent man 
of the old regime of France, who had suffered severely in the 
oppression and cruelty, to which his situation had exposed him, 
from the Turkish government. In describing this island, if may 
he proper to introduce them. In the first, the sigma is represented 
# The word (piXoCppocruvri, although frequently translated friendship, properly signifies 
what in Latin is called comitas. Vid. Not. Valcsii i7i Enseb. lib.' \ ii. c. 22. 
f The word corresponding to Epcrnpa, in Latin inscriptions, is gntt, as well a 
Collegium, Vid. Reinesii Inscript.p. *33. 
