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ANCIENT TOMBS.
[Chap, xxxm.
by a Lacedemonian colony, by whom the worship of Apollo
Carneus was probably introduced. This inscription is also
interesting as alluding to an Artemidorus, son of Theopom-
pus, or a Theopompus, son of Artemidorus, for the final
letters are not very clear. There was, however, an Artemi-
dorus of Cnidus, son of the historian Theopompus, who had
a school at Rome, and who, as well as his father, was the friend
of Julius Caesar: he wrote the account of the meditated
conspiracy, and presented it to the dictator as he was going
to the Senate.* It is also worthy of notice that the name
of Theopompus or of his son should be Caius Julius ; and
that the monument was erected by Marcus Apollonius,
probably Apollonius of Alabanda, a city of Caria, who had
established a school of rhetoric at Rhodes and Rome, and at
the latter place numbered Julius Csosar and Cicero amongst
his pupils. Thus we have the names of several of the
friends of Julius Caesar brought together in this short in-
scription. The use of the word MAAPK02 for MAPKOS
is rather singular, and is probably a Dorism.
But the most interesting remains at Cnidus are the nu-
merous tombs, almost all Cyclopian, at a distance of about
a mile or more from the eastern gate : some of these are
buildings of considerable extent. They are generally built
against the side of a sloping hill, and therefore consist
of only three walls, which, in front and at the two sides,
support an elevated terrace: the tombs when perfect are
always completed by heavy coping-stones. Sometimes they
are raised considerably higher than the ground within, so as
to enclose a square space, entered by a doorway in the massive
walls. When two occur near together, a narrow passage is left
between them. At first I mistook them for dwelling-houses,
or villas, until I found sepulchral inscriyjtions belonging to
them. They are of all sizes; one of the largest is a square
of 120 feet, with walls of beautiful polygonal construction,
and a regular coping of flat slabs: within this space are
two or three small buildings, apparently tombs, having
* Plut. iii Cues. Strata, lib. xiv. c. 2.
ANCIENT TOMBS.
[Chap, xxxm.
by a Lacedemonian colony, by whom the worship of Apollo
Carneus was probably introduced. This inscription is also
interesting as alluding to an Artemidorus, son of Theopom-
pus, or a Theopompus, son of Artemidorus, for the final
letters are not very clear. There was, however, an Artemi-
dorus of Cnidus, son of the historian Theopompus, who had
a school at Rome, and who, as well as his father, was the friend
of Julius Caesar: he wrote the account of the meditated
conspiracy, and presented it to the dictator as he was going
to the Senate.* It is also worthy of notice that the name
of Theopompus or of his son should be Caius Julius ; and
that the monument was erected by Marcus Apollonius,
probably Apollonius of Alabanda, a city of Caria, who had
established a school of rhetoric at Rhodes and Rome, and at
the latter place numbered Julius Csosar and Cicero amongst
his pupils. Thus we have the names of several of the
friends of Julius Caesar brought together in this short in-
scription. The use of the word MAAPK02 for MAPKOS
is rather singular, and is probably a Dorism.
But the most interesting remains at Cnidus are the nu-
merous tombs, almost all Cyclopian, at a distance of about
a mile or more from the eastern gate : some of these are
buildings of considerable extent. They are generally built
against the side of a sloping hill, and therefore consist
of only three walls, which, in front and at the two sides,
support an elevated terrace: the tombs when perfect are
always completed by heavy coping-stones. Sometimes they
are raised considerably higher than the ground within, so as
to enclose a square space, entered by a doorway in the massive
walls. When two occur near together, a narrow passage is left
between them. At first I mistook them for dwelling-houses,
or villas, until I found sepulchral inscriyjtions belonging to
them. They are of all sizes; one of the largest is a square
of 120 feet, with walls of beautiful polygonal construction,
and a regular coping of flat slabs: within this space are
two or three small buildings, apparently tombs, having
* Plut. iii Cues. Strata, lib. xiv. c. 2.