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syncretism. ancient coins.

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The mention of such a common assembly reminds
us of the well-known Syncretism, as it was called. The
different states of the island used always to lay aside
their internal quarrels, and to unite in defence of their
common country, whenever threatened by any foreign
foe38.

I also found the following fragment of an inscrip-
tion :

O i o
tikocmi
aamokya

tone
a k p a n k a
k a i t a n c
t i a t x n

t n n n i n r

a H c e c e
t o a i k o

While I was in the modern Axos many coins of the
ancient city, found by the peasants in tilling the ground,
were shown to me. Out of nearly forty of them which
I purchased, almost all were Cretan, and about sixteen
were of Axos itself. None of them were of silver.

38 Plutarch, on brotherly love, §. 19. (p. 490. b. or Tom. ii. p. 993.
ed. Wyttenb.) Wip.ovp.evov avTo yovv tovto tcov KprfTtov, o'i iro\\aKi<s
KTTaaia^ovTei aWij'Xois Kal TroXepovvTCi, e£co6ev iinovTcov iro\epi(av Sie-
Xvovto Kal a'Jv'iaTavTO' Kal tovto i)v 6 KaXov/ievos vir' ai)Twv cr vy k pi\-
Ttc/io's. Compare the Great Etymologicon, in avyKp^Ticrai, and
Hoeck, Kreta, Vol. in. p. 470.