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V. An Account of the Greek Inscription on Pompey's Pillar, by Capt. W.M. Leake and Lieut. John Squire, in a Letter to Matthew Raine, D.D. F.A.S. and communicated by him in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary

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W.M. Leake  and
John Squire
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Will you be kind enough to lay before the Society the papers which accompany this note? The discovery seems to me to be of considerable importance, and the learned world must lament that young men so zealous in the cause of antient literature should have had the misfortune to lose by shipwreck many treasures collected in various parts of Greece.

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Archaeologia , Volume 15 , 1806 , pp. 59 - 64
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1806

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page 61 note [a] Or χαι η πολις τον ευεργετην . See an inscription found at Sais by Van Egmont and Heyman, and reported in their travels. If I recollect right, some in the same style are to be found in Chandler's inscriptions. W. M. L.

The following inscription is No. XXIV. of those from Byzantium in Brunck's Analecta, Tom. III. p. 132.

Ιουστίνον χατὰ χρέος τὸν δεσπότην

Ιουλιανὸς Ηπαρχος, ώς εὺεργέτην.

The omitted verb is έστῆτε or άνέθετο, and implies that the statue of the person mentioned was set up. M.R.

page 63 note [b] It must be observed, however, that we have never seen any other instance of a Greek inscription on red granite. It may perhaps be conjectured by some that the inscription was added at a period subsequent to the erection of the monument. W.M.L.

page 64 note [c] Chron. Pasc. 276. Procop. Hist. Arcan. c. 26.

page 64 note [d] Joh. Malelas, Chron. P. 410.