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taxerxes.

I these reinaining letters νεβ. . . relate to this expe

reputation anadamniing, in one of the minicillitie Landensightened aeretis os ancient Graece, coniniit suta mis-takes, in oppositi m to ste positive attestations of themo accurate historians, in ments of PUBLIC NOT R1ETH IVovina private citiaeen or a magistrate os Paros, in derra crudae M inac*uriae series of epochys to 1 engraved, ad a great expence, an transinitae in posterit o a nimie monument t--It is h Gy γυ- dissile,

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AM, Banier asseris, ahat stes 1 Ales ere dugii in me salutis Paros . Omers teli us uiat iste were not Quia allaros, butin Asia Minor, at Smyrna.

CE MARBRES furent deterris dans Pisi de Paros, ieri Iusati Cointela'Arondet. Banter, Μythoi tom. Vi p. 62. edit. Ρal et 7 o. his Arriter, an many iners, suppos the Chronicie tohave' een inritaemon a series of severat pieces of Inariale. At pre .sent, there is ni a metitaei ed fragmen remaining biit it is inostprobabie, ilia the wholoe inscription vas originalty engravedin onetablet. Selden, vho sau the greatest partis it sp k of it in thesingula nunal er epocha ni marinor, chronologicum marinor,&c edit Ansa p. sit. Vid. WPTa, p. 33. n.' Ea marinorum fragmenta inventa sunt Smyrmat, quae civitas erat inter Ionicas insignis. Palmer Exercit. M Chron. Marin Amn-des. p. 682. Antiquus ille elimnologus, qui ex Mindellianis marinoribus, apud Simyrnana EFFoss Is nuper editus est. Petav. Rat Temp. par. . . n. e. 9. Autorem hinc Parium fuisse, aequum in ut cim ecternus. seld. arin Arundel. p. 72.

M hoc

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hoc marino Smyrnae magis, luda in ULLA ALIA Asiae parte, inventum fuisse, NON LI UET'. 'Dr Chandier ELIEVE it 6 Miuultat Paros, andastematas remove to Smyrma. Marmor Chronicoruin insulataro, UT FAs IT CREDERE, repertum, dein

ad Smyniam irranslatum ' 'This is me la account v liave of ine Patia inscription. O mese evidences e may serve, thalmeister DuPin Dii Fremoy Banier,ialinerius, nor elavius, appear o have received an certain information, relativeto me place visere in Chronicie ras discovered atteast the are not consistent in mei accounts ; Mad yet,as in hali se hereaster, it vas purchased at Smyrna by

In the inscription itself ve have no data, by ictis ecan an ways distore in placet v iere the niariae vitas Palmerius conceives, stat me umor o me ston culter Pras an Ionian. ιούς, he says, is the Ionian diale sor εως, in IIv foris Παρο, and ο Λυκωρεια for in But Maittaire observes that σιως is the poetic dialiat, irequently used by Homer stat in and o Me merearchaisnas, ver common in ancient inscriptions and

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os ancient mamiseripis, , coins, statues, and inscriptio sand at thecimne time, reconimen led an assisted r.

Pere' inoin me earl l seni into Asia r in pur eos colle ring antiquities; et in his letters o his lord- stip relative to the sisto teries natale by in Petin hedoes notinc mention the Paraan Chronicie.

seriis quippe haec magis in arctassinum, quam ad Ionismum spe . init . . . . Nisi tallor, ει pirara, et Ousto , poetarunt Inam propria sunt, ramvis hae usurpent sequentissilii etiam Ionea. Maiu.'

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timatio of the aria Chroniclea inici is a remari able circumstance For, sapposinii tote austenti cit vas a nost valvabie monument of ancient earninga in i iniis suesy have occasione much conversitio at Smyrna, an other places in stat country more spe mali as ue laesi sand matri ha been Ex PosED TosALE, b ore it fel into ille hamis of r. Ρetu. Gessendus, in his Lis of M. de eires: f, gives irecte solio ving account of ita sust discovery. Per idem tempus accepit petrestius aureum m D. liti et leni librum, de Amandellianis Marmoribus, sive saxis Graece incisis, quae perillustris ille comes tra-serti ex Asia in An iam hortosque suos, curavera Ac nemorare quidein par est, metu mora illa fuisse primum opera Petressiti detecta, erutaque, persoluti, aureis quinquaginta, per Samsonem quendam, ipsius Emia binyrnae proclirantem; convehenda cum jam essent, nescio a venditoriarii arte, anisonem conjetam hi carcerent missi: marmoraque ipsa interea distram. Sed et illud addendum est, imaximoper laetatum Petrenicium, . uin accepit, praeclMas illas antiquit iis reliquias in

' Nicolas latide Fabii de Petrest, counsellor in in partiament

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istitiaierois acidisse minus ac tanto magis, quanto ag- Scilicet, cui unicus scopus utilitas publica fuit, nihi putavit interesse, seu sua Met gloria, seu sterius, si nodo quod esset e reipublicae literanae bono prodia

rex inducem. Hmniavit autem, minurum incomparabilem contineri in illis, praesertim rerum Graecariana -- his, quae non modo historicum, sed tabulosum etiam - rempus uisem nlustrant, concili ritque 3 dum inmora--bilia o rania, ab Marsis ii se in ingentis ante invia das, ad usque quingentos mi Imranta post earin ini-

sua inta.