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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ELGIN COLLECTION. 140
; against the Syraeusans; so that this marble seems
i to explain the narrative of the historian s.
No. 346. A fragment of a treaty of alliance for
mutual defence between the Athenians and Erythraeans.
The characters are very antientf. Osann refers this
inscription to a date as early as the 77th Olympiad,
470 years b. c.J
No. 377. Visconti calls this " a singular inscrip-
tion in the Boeotian iEolic dialect §. We observe," he
says, " in it forms, whether grammatical or pakeo-
graphical, unknown to all those who have written on
the dialects of the Greek language, and on its palaeo-
graphy or antient orthography. We also find in it
some unknown words, and some names of months
and magistrates which do not occur elsewhere.
" The subject of the inscription, of which as many
as fifty-five lines remain, is a treaty between the cities
of Orchomenos in Bceotia, and Elatea in Phoeis,
relative to the payments due from the Orchomenians
to the citizens of Elatea. These payments originated
"l the permission granted to the Orchomenians to
feed their flocks in the pastures of the Elateans. The
inscription, which was engraved at Orchomenos, con-
firms the payment of the sums stipulated, and the
renewal of the treaty of pasturage, Eiru>o/uai, for the
space of four years.
" The inscription must belong to a period very little
Earlier than the year 370 b. c, in which the Thebans
subdued the Orchomenians.
" Meletius has inserted in his geography a copy of
tois inscription, which is full of errors, and in which
* See Visconli's Memoir on the sculptures of the Parthenon,
P' 158. Osann, Syli. p. 8. Rose, Inscript. Gr. vetustiss. p. 253.
™eckh, vol. i. p. 111.
t Old arrangement No. 288.
* Osann, Syll. p. I. Rose, Inscr. Gr. p. 255. Boeckh, vol. i.
P. 109. ' r
v Old arrangement, in the Museum, No. 177.
V°L. II. S
; against the Syraeusans; so that this marble seems
i to explain the narrative of the historian s.
No. 346. A fragment of a treaty of alliance for
mutual defence between the Athenians and Erythraeans.
The characters are very antientf. Osann refers this
inscription to a date as early as the 77th Olympiad,
470 years b. c.J
No. 377. Visconti calls this " a singular inscrip-
tion in the Boeotian iEolic dialect §. We observe," he
says, " in it forms, whether grammatical or pakeo-
graphical, unknown to all those who have written on
the dialects of the Greek language, and on its palaeo-
graphy or antient orthography. We also find in it
some unknown words, and some names of months
and magistrates which do not occur elsewhere.
" The subject of the inscription, of which as many
as fifty-five lines remain, is a treaty between the cities
of Orchomenos in Bceotia, and Elatea in Phoeis,
relative to the payments due from the Orchomenians
to the citizens of Elatea. These payments originated
"l the permission granted to the Orchomenians to
feed their flocks in the pastures of the Elateans. The
inscription, which was engraved at Orchomenos, con-
firms the payment of the sums stipulated, and the
renewal of the treaty of pasturage, Eiru>o/uai, for the
space of four years.
" The inscription must belong to a period very little
Earlier than the year 370 b. c, in which the Thebans
subdued the Orchomenians.
" Meletius has inserted in his geography a copy of
tois inscription, which is full of errors, and in which
* See Visconli's Memoir on the sculptures of the Parthenon,
P' 158. Osann, Syli. p. 8. Rose, Inscript. Gr. vetustiss. p. 253.
™eckh, vol. i. p. 111.
t Old arrangement No. 288.
* Osann, Syll. p. I. Rose, Inscr. Gr. p. 255. Boeckh, vol. i.
P. 109. ' r
v Old arrangement, in the Museum, No. 177.
V°L. II. S