XV. Observations in Vindication of the Authenticity of the Parian Chronicle. By Richard Gough, Esq. Director

Richard Gough Esq.

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XV. Observations in Vindication of the Authenticity of the Parian Chronicle. By Richard Gough, Esq. Director

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Richard Gough Esq.

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The ingenious author of an 8vo volume just published, under the title of “the Parian Chronicle,” has with much learning and diligence suggested his doubts, concerning the authenticity of that monument which the University of Oxford places at the head of her Collection of Marbles, having shewn it that respect ever since by the liberality of one of the noble family of Howard she became possest of that valuable Collection ; the first which this country could boast for near a century, till the munificence and taste of a private individual formed one equal to it in the capital.

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Information: Archaeologia , Volume 9 , 1789 , pp. 157 - 186

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Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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^{page 157 note [a]} Rev. Mr. Robertson, author of “an Introduction to Polite Literature, “1762,” and of “an Essay on Punctuation, 1785.”

^{page 158 note [b]} Vol. LV. pp. 531. 603.

^{page 160 note [c]} Archæol. vol. I. p. 155.

^{page 160 note [d]} Chandler, Insc. Ant. p. 24.

^{page 161 note [e]} P. 56.

^{page 162 note [f]} P. 50, and in the Appendix to Muratori's, Thesaurus, p. MMCXVIII.

^{page 162 note [g]} Chishull, p. 66.

^{page 162 note [h]} See the Ionian Antiquities.

^{page 163 note [i]} Chandler, Insc. Antiquæ, P. VI. 14.

^{page 163 note [k]} Gori. Muratori, DCVII.

^{page 163 note [l]} Muratori, DCXXXIII.

^{page 163 note [m]} Marm. Ox. p. 38.

^{page 163 note [n]} Chandler's Inscriptions, p. 37.

^{page 163 note [o]} Ibid. p. 40.

^{page 163 note [p]} Ibid. p. 41—47.

^{page 163 note [q]} Corsini Herculis Quies & Expiatio. fol.

^{page 163 note [r]} Mem. de l'Acad. des Insc. xxvi p. 165, 40°. xliv. p. 15, 12°.

^{page 164 note [s]} Dial. de Musica.

^{page 165 note [t]} Apollod. Bib. 265. Ed. Gale.

^{page 166 note [u]} Evenus, an elegiac poet, Agoracritus, a pupil of Phidias, and three encaustic painters. Choiseul.

^{page 168 note [x]} VII. p. 408, ed. Lips.

^{page 168 note [y]} Gitért sur les rois d'Egypt, Mem. de l'Acad. des Insc. xix. p. 1. 4°. xxx. p. 7. 12m°.

^{page 168 note [z]} In Camillo.

^{page 169 note [z]} Mem. de l'Acad. des Insc. ii. 396. 4°. iii. 34. 12°.

^{page 170 note [a]} Mem. de l'Acad. des Insc. vi. 168. 4°. viii. 266. 12m°.

^{page 170 note [b]} Ib. P. 37.

^{page 170 note [c]} Mem. de l'Acad. des Insc. vii. 180, 4°. x. 283. 12°.

^{page 171 note [d]} Ibid, Ib. 236, 4°. p. 357. 12°.

^{page 171 note [e]} Ibid, 237, 4°. p. 375. 12°.

^{page 172 note [f]} Mem. de l'Acàd. xxiii, 61—82. 4°. xxxviii. 99—133. 12°.

^{page 173 note [g]} Hist. of Eng. Poetry, I. 129—133.

^{page 174 note [h]} Ibid. 2d Dissertation, sheet i. 2.

^{page 176 note [i]} See M. Gibert. ubi sup.

^{page 176 note [k]} Freret, Mem. de l'Acad. vii. 427, 428.

^{page 179 note [l]} XLI. 29.

^{page 179 note [m]} L. i. 12.

^{page 179 note [n]} In Numa.

^{page 180 note [o]} Pref. ad. Thesaur. Inscriptionum, p. 2.

^{page 180 note [p]} Bibl. Lat. L. iv. c. 3.

^{page 181 note [q]} Ubi sup. p. 4.

^{page 181 note [r]} The laws enacted by the Roman Emperors both Pagan and Christian, and by the Popes, and Kings of France, against those who forged records, deeds, or titles, from the first to the 16th Century, are remarkably severe. The detection of these falsities was not so difficult as has been imagined even in the earlier times. See Nouv. Traite de Diplomatique, Tom. VI. part vi. p. 110—230. Peiresc detected a fictitious foundation charter of the cathedral of Toulon, acd had the forger of it sentenced to death, and the writer of it to the gallies. Bouche, Hist. de Provence, II. 86.

^{page 181 note [s]} Præf. Woide, § 4. c. 41.

^{page 182 note [t]} Selden in his preface characterises him as “the very learned William Petty” and celebrates his great judgement in collecting antient marbles.

I think it highly probable that this was Mr. Petty, master of the Free school at Beverley, to whom Sir Hugh Cholmley was sent there 1611. Upon being chosen fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; he quitted the school, and took with him Sir Hugh, who was then (1613) only 13 years of age and 3 months. He is characterised in Sir Hugh's Memoirs lately printed for private use, (p. 36) as “a good scholar and witty man, but given to drinking, and so debauched us all, that I had been utterly undone, but for an intervening occasion—which was this: my said tutor Petty was called from college to London, to be tutor and master to the Earl of Arundel's sons in their father's house.”

I take this opportunity to correct my mistake in Brit. Topog. II. 128. in suppposing. the person employed by the Earl of Arundel to collect for him was Sir William Petty; for that gentleman was not then born.

^{page 183 note [u]} The same may be said of the honorary monument erected to the Erec. theid tribe reciting wars barely mentioned by historians. Galliæ antiq. select. p. 82. Bimardi Dissert. Ima Muratori, II. DCCCLXXVIII.

The marble charged with the names of the youths registered from one of the tribes at Athens and admitted into the number of the Ephebi. Corsini Fasti Attici IV. proleg. p. ix.

The bas relief and inscription of Mantheus at Wilton is a record of a victory at the Nemean games between the 70th and 80th Olympiad. Bimardi Dissert. Muratori Thes. Insc. prefixa. The genuineness however of this marble has been doubted.

The bas relief of Xanthippus offering a votive foot to the Gods in memory of his happy recovery from a wound received in one of his feet has been referred to the Spartan general who commanded his countrymen in the Carthaginian army against the Romans, but may as well relate to the father of Pericles, who defeated the Persians at Mycale, though we have no facts in history to support either reference.

On the other hand many monumental records referred to by historians do not now exist. Such are the brass table in the temple of Juno Lacinia at Lacinium inscribed with the actions of Hannibal, which served Polybius as a foundation for his history, III. p. 188, Livy xxix. c. ult. Bimardi Dissertatio Ima. Muratori Thes. Infc. col. 4.

^{page 184 note [x]} Travels, II. ii. 83. Inscriptions, p. 6.

^{page 185 note [y]} I pass over a fragment relative to the Servile war, illustrated with notes by Baron Bimardi, who communicated it to Muratori for his “Thesaurus Inscriptionum,” as it is uncertain whether it was copied from a brass plate, a stone, or a MS. It contains, however, some names of persons and places like the fragment of Livy lately discovered in the Vatican.

^{page 185 note [z]} Annal. XI. 24.

^{page 185 note [a]} Tac. Hist. IV. 6.

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