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XXXII. Observations on a Greek Inscription brought from Athens. By Daniel Wray, Esquire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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I Take the liberty to communicate to the Society an ancient inscription, which I met with some months ago in the possession of Mr. Jones, of Finchley, a worthy old gentleman, who is retired from business to a pleasant spot in that village.
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page 217 note [a] D occurs in the Farnesian inscription of Herodes Atticus, which, according to the best critics, is an imitation of the oldest manner of writing.
page 217 note [b] The Baudelotian inscription has R with a shorter tail.
page 217 note [c] Pliny, L. VII. c. 58. Tacitus, Annal. XI, 14.
page 217 note [d] ⊕ in Deliac inscription. ⊕ in Deliac and Baudelotian. + in Sigean and Baudelotian.
page 217 note [e] By Montfaucon, in Palaeographia Graeca, page 142. I do not remember to have seen it with the middle horizontal stroke so long , or turned on its side .
page 218 note [f] Except in the Nouvelle Diplomatique of the Benedictins, who give ⊢ under the letter Λ, in their alphabet of the third and subsequent centuries after Christ, which can have nothing to do with the age of our inscription. ⊢ has been used in the place of the Aeolic Digamma, and of the Aspirate Spirit. In the sums of money upon the Sandwich Marble, Dr. Taylor understands by it a fraction of the drachma, most probably the Obolus. Taylor's Marm. Sandvic. p. 43.
page 218 note [g] Telestes, by an undeniable restoration of the T, is the name of a poet in the Parian Chronicle, No. 79. Σ is never doubled in the same syllable; so Τελεσςας is probably an error of the graver.
page 218 note [h] Thus C and Q are indifferently put in Latin; cocus, coquus; locutus, loquutus. is also found upon many Syracusian coins; where it is supposed to be the first letter of Corinth, of which city Syracuse was a colony. All these coins I had the opportunity of seeing in the most perfect reservation by the favour of our worthy brother Mr. Duane; whose elegant collection is always open to the curiosity of his friends.
page 218 note [i] Αυχοδορχχς (perhaps ας for ης, as in Τελεςας) looking like a wolf, as γλυχυδερχης, λιθοδερχης. So λιχοθαρσης, bold as a wolf.
page 218 note [k] Mr. Bourget of Neufchatel, in Biblioth. Ital. tom. xviii. and Mr. le Clerc, in Biblioth. Choisie, tom. xi.