472 
Thus we have in Horace, Tu semper urges 
flebilibus modis—Multis tlle a 
occidit.—In Ovid, Elegia ficbilis, Carmen 
Jjlebile :—and Stephanus, in his Thesaurus, 
explains the word flebilis, by plenum 
lachrymis, vel dignum quod fledtur 3 and 
cites many exainples of its use in that 
sense, but in no other. It may, no 
doubt, be alleged, that a person who 
has suffered such misfortunes as are here 
alluded to, is dignus gui fleatur ; but this 
is plainly not the author's meaning. He 
intended to express his own deep afilicti- 
on and sorrow, and not to express that 
he was the object of aifliction and sorrow 
to others; which last is the only legiti- 
mate sense of the word. Iwould, there- 
fore, with all respect, both for the author 
of these verses, who is certainly a very 
elegant poet, and for the judgment of the 
critic, who justly praises them, suggest 
an alteration of this epithet, and that the 
line should run thus: 
Et mox sub uno tristis, heu, vidi parens. 
If I am-wrong in the foregoing criticism, 
and any of your learned readers shall 
point out to me a good authority, from 
an ancient classic, for the use of the 
word flebilis, in the sense in which Lord 
Hailes has here employed it, I shall be 
much obliged tothem. Yours, &c. 
Ozford-street, Nov..14, 1808... KR... B. 
Explanation of an Inscription at Damietia. 
[Dec. 1, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the third volume of Lord Valentia’s 
Travels, lately published, page 420, 
is an inscription copied from a column 
in a mosque at Damietta.— Lis lordship 
informs us, that to him, * Jf is quite un= 
in! felligible : that wt is certainly. not en- 
tirelyin Greek, nor any other characters, 
but seems Cabalistic.” , 
To me it appears to be pure Greek: 
and the form of the letters to be that 
which is now commonly used in Greece 
and Asia Minor, and even im the mo- 
dern Greek books, printed at Venice and 
the Ionian islands, as well asin Biblical 
Greek Manuscripts about the twelfth and 
succeeding centuries. I have ventured 
to supply a few letters which appear to 
me to have been defaced at the end of 
the first, second, and third lines; though 
Iam not convinced. that the final M at 
the end of the first line, may not have 
been the initial of the name of the de- 
ceased, to whose memory it was erected. 
Above the inscription is an ornamented 
cross. I have used the letters employed 
by our printers. 
MNHIOHTI M/CY 
_~ 
KE EN TH BA 
[AEIA TOV AIA 
TON SON AOVAON\TON ATION 
TFESLPrION. 
ie. MynzSnts (42, Kupte, ey Ty Bas tAELa TH, 
Sia Tov ocy Sedov Toy Ayiov Decpyiov. 
*« Lord! remember me in thy kingdom, for 
the sake of, (or through the intercession of,) 
thy servant, St. George.” 
KE isa well known abbreviation of 
KYPIE, Lord. St. George is the tute- 
* Jary saint of tle Gidee Church. 
You will reacily admit that this epitaph 
£ 
Gat. pee 
is an applicatiou of the speech made by 
the penitent malefactor, to our Saviour 
on the Cross. 
MycicSntt pov Kverty oray eating ey TH Rartrte 
ce. 
‘« Lord remember me when thou comest in 
thy kingdom. Luke xxiii. 42. 
‘  Your’s, &c. 
Bedford, July 25,1809. Purire ex 
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