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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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.
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 preservation 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.