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CLARKE s S TRAVELS. 
Upon a second, with the rams’ heads, appeared only the name 
of a person who had placed it as a vow. 
nrEroA 
A0PEf2N02 
Upon a third, corresponding in its ornaments with the first, 
was the name of Folycleitus, the son of Polyaratus. 
nOATKAEITOs 
nOAT IP A T Or 
From the classical simplicity and brevity used by the Greeks 
in their inscriptions, we might derive examples for the improve¬ 
ment of our taste in this respect. How much more impressive 
is tin style pursued by them, than our mode of writing upon 
public monuments, where a long verbose superscription is in¬ 
troduced. relating to things whereof it concerns not posterity to 
be informed 1 In other ages, however, the Greeks of the Car¬ 
pathian sea and coast of Cana had the custom of adding to such 
simple inscriptions an hexameter distich; of this I have seen 
many instances, but shall subjoin one as I found it on the pe¬ 
destal of a marble column at Rhodes : this had been hollowed, 
and placed over the mouth of a well in the inner basin of the 
principal harbour. # It it very interesting, as it relates to an 
artist of the country, Atnphilockns the son of Lagus^ who was 
probably an architect 
AMdHAOXOT 
TOTAAArOT 
IXONTdPEaS 
HKEIKAJNEIAOrnPOXOAXKAlESXATONINAON 
TEXNA2AM$lAOXOIOMErAKAEO2A<Z>0ITONAEI 
“ THE GREAT AND IMMORTAL GLORY OF THE ART OFAMPHf- 
LACHUS REACHES EVEN TO THE MOUTHS OF THE 
NILE AND TO THE UTMOST INDUS.” 
Upon a block of marble, in the street before the Greek convent, 
* After my return to England, I was graitfied by finding that Egmont and Hey- 
man, half a century before, had also noticed this inscription, (See Vol. I. p. 268 .) 
because their copy confirmed my own, as to the words AAAPOX and ITQNTQ- 
PEQS ; while in other respects, it is so imperfect as to be unintelligible without 
the assistance of the more correct reading" here offered. The classical reader will be 
interested in remarking, that Aristophanes, in the N«<pc\al, uses the expression ©f 
.the Rhodian Poet; 
Bit’ NEIAOX XXPOXOAIE todw'i. 
