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TEMPLE OF HEKATE AT LAGINA. 571
follows that either of his deme or tribe, among which
may he noticed the uncouth gentile names Aofio^oisvg,
Koy^ooyeug, Awvoaorevg, which are evidently Oarian.
In the coarse of the inscriptions, mention is made
of the fiou^rj and the ^r^og and of civil magistrates,
such as Prytanes and Stepkanephorij in whose name
the decrees made by the senate and people were
registered. The " city," irfrhig, is also named. It is
uncertain whether this refers to Stratonicoea or to
Lagina itself; more probably to the former.k In one
case only is there reference to general history: this
is in a fragment from a decree in which mention is
made of some king of whom the name has perished,
and in which occur the names of two towns, ;£<Wa,
Themessos and Keramos, the latter of which still
retains its name. There is also an allusion to the
acts of Lucius Cornelius.....the cognomen
being wanting. It is not improbable that the
Roman whose prcenomen and nomen are thus given,
was Sylla, Avho, after the defeat of Mithradates,
was all-powerful in Asia Minor.
Three-quarters of an hour to the north-east of
Lagina Lieutenant Smith discovered a tomb built
of marble, of which the interior measurement was
10' by 9'. On the right of the entrance was a
marble floor, 2' 3" in breadth, extending nearly to
the back of the tomb. The walls inside consisted of
two courses of squared blocks of marble, rough-
k Compare the inscription from the Amphiaraion, where the
neighbouring city of Oropus is spoken of as // ttoXuj.—Boeckh,
C. I. No. 1570.
2 p 2
follows that either of his deme or tribe, among which
may he noticed the uncouth gentile names Aofio^oisvg,
Koy^ooyeug, Awvoaorevg, which are evidently Oarian.
In the coarse of the inscriptions, mention is made
of the fiou^rj and the ^r^og and of civil magistrates,
such as Prytanes and Stepkanephorij in whose name
the decrees made by the senate and people were
registered. The " city," irfrhig, is also named. It is
uncertain whether this refers to Stratonicoea or to
Lagina itself; more probably to the former.k In one
case only is there reference to general history: this
is in a fragment from a decree in which mention is
made of some king of whom the name has perished,
and in which occur the names of two towns, ;£<Wa,
Themessos and Keramos, the latter of which still
retains its name. There is also an allusion to the
acts of Lucius Cornelius.....the cognomen
being wanting. It is not improbable that the
Roman whose prcenomen and nomen are thus given,
was Sylla, Avho, after the defeat of Mithradates,
was all-powerful in Asia Minor.
Three-quarters of an hour to the north-east of
Lagina Lieutenant Smith discovered a tomb built
of marble, of which the interior measurement was
10' by 9'. On the right of the entrance was a
marble floor, 2' 3" in breadth, extending nearly to
the back of the tomb. The walls inside consisted of
two courses of squared blocks of marble, rough-
k Compare the inscription from the Amphiaraion, where the
neighbouring city of Oropus is spoken of as // ttoXuj.—Boeckh,
C. I. No. 1570.
2 p 2