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VIII.]
OTHER INSCRIPTIONS.
155
placed in the throne of Heaven, and received, with the
sceptre and thunderbolts of his father, power over both
gods and men36. The Curetes were charged to watch
over the infant deity, but failed to guard him from the
treacherous Titans, by whom he was torn limb from
limb37.
In a private house I found another inscription, the
characters of which were large, but so indistinct, that
I could make nothing more out of it than that it was
written in Doric Greek. Before leaving the village I
found others, which I might perhaps have succeeded in
decyphering, had I been able to spend more time in
endeavouring to do so. As it was I copied enough
to shew that one of them was a decree of a " com-
mon assembly of the Cretans.'"
EAO;ETniKo|NHITfllKPHTAIEflN
OIZYITEN EMIONTEET... Hi. KPH ... E.N
THI.........A....KAI.. .TEYT...TOI
. . . . OOAEAETM ENAlKA I
TniKOi N 12 ITU I K P H T A I.....
............EYNOIANTft
3(5 Nonxus, Dionys. vi. 165.
Tiaypea yeLva/xevt] nepoev /3pe'(£os, os Atos topi)?
fiovvos tsTroupavirjs eire/BrftraTO, XeLPL ^e PaLV
dcrTepoin}v eXe'A.i£e, veriyeveos oe (popTjo's
vry7r id)(o is irakap-riaiv eXcKppi^ovTO Kepavvoi.
37 nonnus, 1. c. v. 174.
"Ey8a ol~£<i£op.ei>iav p.e\eoov TitTjvi cnoi'ipw,
T£pp\a (3iov Aiovvaos ex""7 TruXivdypeTov dpyj'iv,
d\\o(pvr\s fiopcpovTO, iroXvairepes elcios d/xeifi(oi>—
Kal dpaabi u>K\a<je Tavpoi' diioifiaiy ok (povijes
Tavpocpvij l\i6vv<tov tp:i<jTu\aVTo fiuxaipy.
OTHER INSCRIPTIONS.
155
placed in the throne of Heaven, and received, with the
sceptre and thunderbolts of his father, power over both
gods and men36. The Curetes were charged to watch
over the infant deity, but failed to guard him from the
treacherous Titans, by whom he was torn limb from
limb37.
In a private house I found another inscription, the
characters of which were large, but so indistinct, that
I could make nothing more out of it than that it was
written in Doric Greek. Before leaving the village I
found others, which I might perhaps have succeeded in
decyphering, had I been able to spend more time in
endeavouring to do so. As it was I copied enough
to shew that one of them was a decree of a " com-
mon assembly of the Cretans.'"
EAO;ETniKo|NHITfllKPHTAIEflN
OIZYITEN EMIONTEET... Hi. KPH ... E.N
THI.........A....KAI.. .TEYT...TOI
. . . . OOAEAETM ENAlKA I
TniKOi N 12 ITU I K P H T A I.....
............EYNOIANTft
3(5 Nonxus, Dionys. vi. 165.
Tiaypea yeLva/xevt] nepoev /3pe'(£os, os Atos topi)?
fiovvos tsTroupavirjs eire/BrftraTO, XeLPL ^e PaLV
dcrTepoin}v eXe'A.i£e, veriyeveos oe (popTjo's
vry7r id)(o is irakap-riaiv eXcKppi^ovTO Kepavvoi.
37 nonnus, 1. c. v. 174.
"Ey8a ol~£<i£op.ei>iav p.e\eoov TitTjvi cnoi'ipw,
T£pp\a (3iov Aiovvaos ex""7 TruXivdypeTov dpyj'iv,
d\\o(pvr\s fiopcpovTO, iroXvairepes elcios d/xeifi(oi>—
Kal dpaabi u>K\a<je Tavpoi' diioifiaiy ok (povijes
Tavpocpvij l\i6vv<tov tp:i<jTu\aVTo fiuxaipy.