^{page 328 note 1} Part of this paper was read in substance at a meeting of the Oxford Philological Society.

^{page 331 note 1} The restoration φράσ]ει which I owe to Professor Wilhelm, exactly fills the required space and agrees with the extant letters; it may therefore be regarded as certain, though the use of the future indicative in place of the imperative is curious.

^{page 331 note 2} The meaning of τοῦ θιάσου (1. 6)is not quite plain. I have taken it as equivalent to θιασώτησ ὤν and think that it was probably added because a statute of a θίασος was of course binding only upon members of the society. Or could θίασου be an engraver's error for θιασ(ώτ)ου ‘whoever is the nearest relative of the (deceased) member’? Cf. Hdt. v. 5 σφάζεται ὐπὸ τοῦ οἰκηιοτάτου ἐωυτῆσ iii. 65 τετελεύτηλε ὐπὸ τῶν ἐωυτοῦ οἰκηιοτάτων

^{page 332 note 1} In this case, however, we have to assume that the grandson was old enough to be a member of the society, which does, it is true, imply that the grandfather was an old rather than a middle aged man.

^{page 332 note 2} Boeotia, , B.C.H. xxii. 246 Google Scholar (Acraephia): Macedonia, , Denkschr. Wien. Akad. 1869, 167 ff.Google Scholar No. 42 (Deuriopus?): Thera, , I.G. xii. 3, 1027 Google Scholar: Bithynia, C.I.G. 3751 (Nicaea); Arch. Anz. 1903, 39 (Prusa): Ionia, Μους. κ. Βιβλ ii. 40 (Smyrna): Lydia, Kontoleon, Ανέκδ ἐπιγρ i. 47 (Chasan Karan): Phrygia, , J.H.S. xvii. 286 Google Scholar (Ancyra): Mysia, Inschr. v. Perg. 562 (Pergamon): Cilicia, Ανέκδ ἐπιγρ i. 135, No. 55 (Seleucia); J.H.S. xii. 229 (Canytelideis); ib. xi. 249 (Castabala, Hieropolis); Humann and Puchstein, Reisen in Kleinasien, p. 398, note 2 (Nicopolis ad Issum). But in a number of these examples it is very doubtful whether the word refers at all to membership of a society.

^{page 333 note 1} I exclude, of course, references to Roman Emperors.

^{page 335 note 1} The locus classicus for the subject of the Greek societies is Ziebarth, E., Das griech. Vereins wesen (Preisschriften der fürstlich Jablonowski'schen Gesellschaft zu Leipzig, xxxiv.), Leipzig, 1896.Google Scholar The epigraphical materials are collected and arranged geographically by Oehler, J., Zum griechischen Vereinswesen, Vienna, 1905.Google Scholar Important additions have since been made by Wilhelm, , Ἱττικά ψηφίσματα in Ἐφημ. ἀρχαιολ 1905, 215 ff.Google Scholar, Nos. 9–15.

^{page 335 note 2} Ziebarth, op. cit. pp. 36 f.; Oehler, op. cit. pp. 7 f.; Schaefer, C., ‘Die Privatkultgenossen schaften im Peiraieus’ in Jahrb. f. klass. Alterlum. cxxi. 417 f.Google Scholar

^{page 336 note 1} The clause, however, requiring that notice be given of a member's decease is, so far as I know, unique. The question of the honours paid by Greek societies to their dead members is best treated by Wilhelm, Serta Harteliana, 231 ff., and Ziebarth, op. cit. 17 f.

^{page 336 note 2} Ziebarth, loc. cit.

^{page 336 note 3} E.g. the κοινὰ ἐρανιστῶν of Alopeke (Wilhelm, loc. cit., Kamiros, (I.G. xii. 1. 736 Google Scholar = Ditt. Syll. ² 746), and five θίασοι of Cos (Paton·Hicks, Inscr. of Cos., Nos. 155–9).

^{page 336 note 4} Instances might be cited from all parts of the Greek world, referring not only to religious or semi-religious θίασοι and σύνοδοι but also to trade-gilds, etc.

^{page 336 note 5} E.g. Kaibel, Epigr. graec. No. 153, 1. 11; Ditt. Syll. ² 737. 159 ff., 729. 46 ff.; Inschriften von Pergamon, 374 B, 24.

^{page 337 note 1} E.g. I.G. iii. 23 (= Wilhelm, Serta Harteliana, 231); I.G. ii. 630; Ditt. Syll. ² 893.

^{page 337 note 2} Smith, Toulmin, English Gilds: The Original Ordinances of more than one hundred Early English Gilds. London, 1870 Google Scholar (Early English Text Society, 40). My attention was drawn to these parallels by Mr. C. T. Onions.