The Parian Chronicle

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But mi ines an octe simila expression in ste

ζω συμψη ς biat notui a fines. Pleraque nos illa opasi mugiente liter claiulimus M, qua UI. RumGraea vectum cadit Quint. l. ita c. o. Vocibus in Graiis nunquam uitiina conspicio M. Auson Elyl. I 2. limia be observeti, by ct way that this is no an ire larverse, a seine have e neousi imaginta, ho have called the finalieiter dia instea Lofμο. In M, byses, aes scaliger, nullam vocem Graecia terminavit rharbaris nobisque ni ius nullus. De Caias Ling. Lat. l. i. c. Io.vid. Scalig. Animadu in Euseb. P. II . et initiaire, Marin Arund. p. Is 638. d. Ling. Graec. Dialea. p. 163, 331.

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τον Παρνασσον, Parnassum. l. 4.την Καδμε- Ciameam. l. a. τον καρπον, iactum l. 7.ι α Κριπιον, iidem Critiae. l. a. εν μαχη, in praelio. l. 63. εν Πλαταιαις, adllataeas. l. 67. Lam Minosi temptessito suspecto that hi Παρ' in Μαρωθωνι aiul oster pretemde Larchaisins, rei indito a mere affectation es antiqui , oro a corrupte diale and Pronunciatio in later ages. For, i ave ina dependo the auctorit o Dr. Be me modern Greelcs, though the write eo in inest cases, pronounc stat

'ut for stat ver Druson, me vovi natura' beadopted by in labricatoris a supposititious inscription. An me austenticitro mos inscriptio , in Whicli ineyappear, iust be est istaed, before est y a be Produced in opposition to in present argument.

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II. Tris carcet probille stat sic an expensive

an cumbersorne voa, as in chronologicalmariae, Mould have been executed by a private citiZen, a philosopher, or an historian, a Paros, ister sor his oram inustinent, or foris benefit of his fesso veitizens.

This xvii appea by the solio vin consuleretitions. First, a long inscription containing a genera systemo chronesogy, could not be engraved ominari te, rarithoiit such an expense, as fera learneci Greelcs vere able toas ta Orici in author, by an incommon felicitnuras able to erect suci a literar ' monument, the scheme voci have been seles and impriadent; as ali iste content of the inscription nught liave been pustilis ita more eommodiousi an essedi ually by iste common inode of ting, in iis a stat time. For, Secondi' a manuscript is more readit circaealta stomliandri hiant an copies of t more asia multipliedanil disperse l. his inscription it is true, inight have been copied butio uriter Manticliau stem to hiave either feen or liearit offuch a copy. Thirdly, a manuscript is assii corrected an ini-

prove l, a the auctor, froni timeri time, manse occasion. ut an inscriptioni mari te is unalterable onctis account, acieque a statute, a decree, an epitaph,&c. Whicla domo usuali require an alteration, may bevery properi inscribe Lon inme. hereas a systemo chronesogy, attended vim innumerable difficulties, and freMenu seunde on mere conjectures, must --

a cessaritat

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ject iniself to the impossibili of mahing occasionis

emendations in his invi persorinance Four ly, in a por os considerable extent, lihe steΡaxian Chronicie, containing a multiplicit ' es,3 me: facts, and lates, a stone-culter vili inevitAly malce anumber of mistalces ' ivlaici can neve hie rectified onste mari te. For instance, there is an error in steriventy-fim epocha, illier of me author, or of the stone-culter, vhic it 'a no eas bir perhapsio pocust te, to correcto, sterie obsequent letters per e

i istian ine letters of an inscriptioni sonorare Ea-Ne t be defaced by a variet os accidendi and stosmallest inutilation, in a. numera character, wild Millydestro a chronological Comptuation. Lastly ancient Writer feen to have agreed, stat Rinanuscript is more likel tori e transinitte to posteriis, stan an inscription eister omniariae or brast. Ovid vas certaint of is opinion, Maen re inus congratulate i himself, the i nor it of his rit- mgs, and bade defiance to the mage of war and -- flagrations, o si fur os vinci an storum, an in devastations of t te:

Nec poterit ferram, nec edax abolare vetustas i.

Horace, on the publicationis his o las, exclainili,

Plumna passim occiamin errata aadratariorurn. Id enimiserius opifice , xtra mechanicam artem lapulariam, non foron , nodum periti, uti nunc saepe, ita ei. olim, errare soliti sunt Mam. N ind. edit Maiit. p. 573. ' See epoc. s. vliere the omission o εαος ου και occasons

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I have raised a monument more lining stan brasse and consequently more durabie stan in te. Thucydides, lilce ise, vilia he wrote in histo is ste eloponnesia utar, mille it κτημα ες αει an evertastin possession f.' But in austor of me Parian ironicie, supposiniitto be genuine inust be supposed to have deviare homste common mode of vriting, victolit an ' sortis proprie , or an reason e motive lie inust be supposedis have put himself to a consideratae, M. at in sinisti me, a seleis expenseri an is have commit- his elaborate persomnance to et stone, michrate coiit nes-ste alter, o convenienti remove, nor secure romviolence, oris depredation o stose 'relio inight sue die maxble more dilan in inscription. Fen these re oscit oes no stem probabie, fiat fiepanan Oironiele vas me prodiimon es a private citigen, icter for his o vn G, o forte benefit os ste

. Hor. l. iii. d. 3o.

Thucyd. l. i. Laa. trahe Jev chad an es tradition thin the descerulent of Setherected imo pillars, on .hieli iste inscribe their inventions aridonei cliem, i vis may Maeve Josephus, veniatam in his tinae. ---την Σιναλ in terra Siritale, in theum Matrii or Sirias. Jos Antiq. Jud. l. i. c. a. , 3. I tu M. de inst. AEgyp sin. i. c. 2.

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hoen such ancient monuments. In ansiue tollis objectiori, reuna remansi divi nocting can be more tabulous and lancererin, inaniae ac- Counts, hicli are transmitte to us, conceritin die

The illars of Seth sor example, may be rechonia amonime fictions o si misi alces of Josephus place

vho Micimis metis, is uncertain. A late inriter supposechii tolinve been Achiactariis, mentioned in the ,-- Tobit, c. i. Q. Dissert in Daniel. Gund. LXX. p. gr. Diovnt. πλε cribes ara Ac, entilled, Micharus, o Theophrastus 3 ut clino. nosting of iis contenta. l. V. Scio.

merodotus telis us, fiat he himself had Genioni os in pillari. Sesostris, εν ν Παλαιον, Σιροη, in the Syria Palestine. l. . The illar, hic Gosephus stys, was imiaining in his tinae, ita proh My one of theseu and luining uae nante of Sesostris, Sethos, inscribec upon it, hecinia nec it hac been erected by ste descendent of Seth. ori aps in pillar, whita ii ascribe Pto thos antediluvian philosopitos, ras one of the pilletu si inreum in Misis, mentioned by anetho Vid. Fabric Cod. Pseud torn i. p. so. Dod Veli on Sanction. 6 13. That an antediluvian illa stoiit l, stan ling in the time os Iosephus, is incressit,ie. But it is no the oni legendam se, Echi re find in the writings of that author Tli eloquent sonos inhias, though in octe respect a valvabie hii orietui, relates many ridiculini fimons i sues ais that of the pinar of ω hmngilien existing. Antiq. l. i. c. I. of Eleazar aries hae demon. Ibid. l. viii. c. a. S s. of the Sabbati 1iver. De Beli. Iud. l. a s. c. s. Di of the plant caued Baiaras. Ibid. c. 6. 3, c.

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Spe ing of me pluar of sdi, M says, te κηκα -υτην επι ae M. - δι--ει. Eam siquidem VIDI, nam et hodie usque manet edit. invere et a6. In inis passay, and in the stor of ine demon, heuses in mordaeκηκα, ο ις κισα, duc is usuallymantates vini. VI have sem.' But so the satis of his credit, I .inil raster suppos it ought to be translated memoravi, de illa relationem a rapi, o nunciatum es mihi de ilissimae auctoris a poem, mitillest, SonoMA, annexe to the vortes a Tertullian is not content ri stying, cte illa o me exilua in his time, but lis inalces VONDER FUI IMPROVI MENT in the story. Durat adhuc etenim nuda statione sub aethram,

Ne pluviis dilapsa situ, nec simia ventis. Qisinetiam, si quis mutilaverit advena fori iam Protinus ex sese suggestia vulneri complet. Dicitur et vivens, alio jam corpore, sexus

Munifieos solito dispungere sauiguine menses. Tertuli. p. p. 644. . Euhemeriis ste essenia compose a Ustor o Iupiter and ineratas imi materiais, cluctate preteii sed odio collected in the colitie of his laveis paniculari seor an inscriptionis agmen illa in the temple o Iupiter riphylius, in an istanacallac Panchaea, sontewhere in the Aradian ocean Euseb. Praep.

Evang. . . c. a. p. o. Lactan. l. i. c. a. See Diodorus

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credit os suci pretende inscriptions as the table os Cebes the Samothraician Hypectorean Linscriptionis reserre to by Axiochus and thos concerninceri Atlantides in Timaeus f.' Alino es the fabricator os supposititious vrri inviam pretende trio derive thei information froni sichobscure an suspicious Aurces Thus, the pissister sine fragments ascribes to anchoniacto, missonialceus belleve, that he compiled his Phoenician histon stomste book of muta, the Αποκρυφα μουνεων τρα-

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ui mystica re i d of es Ammonem , concipale in the sacredis .es of inela temples'. hiis, hil stratus adseris, stat he oo his account of Ap*loni meus fioni ste inemo ira o Dainnis in Ahriai f. rius, Gelasius Cyziceniis telis iis, stat he oum iri Usither' hous an apcim volume, contaim amisetorres in councta os Nicea. Andius, Geostre of ninoum mae petitvule iis, istetit e uetuislate traiis Bratis histin froni an old manuscript found in Armini rica in Walter Calenius, arcui teaeonis Oacsorii, ii

But allo in in ancient inscriptions bovemen

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grave his persorinince omasi os inos inalteriais. The most ancient nations inade use of meni laecausiste were not acquainted init an ining more properor convenient; mul a stρrs urere but e v in stose rude ages, is practnsed ste ari os vesting, it vias ne-