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28ο MONUMENT OF THE THESSALIAN PRINCES
content with the three that were really his, all the more as
Aristotle and Callisthenes just before 340 B.c. had drawn up
the learned lists of Pythian victors from the oldest times
to their own day (cp. p. 29)* In consequence, the Phar-
salian statue is older than the monument at Delphi.
Against this view it has been objected by Wolters that
the verse is badly constructed in the Pharsalian form, and
therefore he proposed to regard it as an awkward revision
of the Delphic version, which would thus be the older of
the two. But such subtle metrical considerations cannot
be proved in a Thessalian epigram for a victor, which need
not have been more perfect than much of the statuary
a b
II . . . . K
III ΓΕί ΟΥί I U
IV . . . ,ΔΑΦΑΡ* .... Ά I FATH?)
1 πρωΤΟίΟΛ YMF ι απα ΓΚΡΑΤΙΟνφαρσαλιενικαις
2 α γ I A A KN 0 N I Ο υ γ η ς α P OOE t ί α λ ι ας
3 πεΝΤΑΚΙ^ΕΝΝΕ ΙΟ^ΑΓυθιαπεντακιςισθμοι
4 καΗΩΝΟΥΔΕΙ ί π ω στ η σ Γ° οπ a ι α χερών
ΛΥ^ΙΓΓοςσικυω νιοςεποιησεν(?)
Das delph. Epigr. V.3: μεαιτ PI t ΓΥΘια
Fig. 140.—Base inscription from Pharsalus.
ordered by Thessalian nobles ; and far more important
is the fact that, if the Pharsalus inscription has the priority,
the exaggeration of the number is inoffensive boastfulness,
and may perhaps even be excused as negligence ; whereas
if the Pharsalus epigram is put later than the Delphian,
and regarded as a modified copy of it, the substitution of
the number five for three is a conscious lie, which has no
point where, as here, it is a question of a series of victories
a century old, the exact number of which Aristotle had just
published.
But now we come to the most important point, the con-
clusion of the Pharsalian inscription. While there is not a
single artist's signature in the whole of the Daochus monu-
ment at Delphi, the base inscription at Pharsalus informs us
content with the three that were really his, all the more as
Aristotle and Callisthenes just before 340 B.c. had drawn up
the learned lists of Pythian victors from the oldest times
to their own day (cp. p. 29)* In consequence, the Phar-
salian statue is older than the monument at Delphi.
Against this view it has been objected by Wolters that
the verse is badly constructed in the Pharsalian form, and
therefore he proposed to regard it as an awkward revision
of the Delphic version, which would thus be the older of
the two. But such subtle metrical considerations cannot
be proved in a Thessalian epigram for a victor, which need
not have been more perfect than much of the statuary
a b
II . . . . K
III ΓΕί ΟΥί I U
IV . . . ,ΔΑΦΑΡ* .... Ά I FATH?)
1 πρωΤΟίΟΛ YMF ι απα ΓΚΡΑΤΙΟνφαρσαλιενικαις
2 α γ I A A KN 0 N I Ο υ γ η ς α P OOE t ί α λ ι ας
3 πεΝΤΑΚΙ^ΕΝΝΕ ΙΟ^ΑΓυθιαπεντακιςισθμοι
4 καΗΩΝΟΥΔΕΙ ί π ω στ η σ Γ° οπ a ι α χερών
ΛΥ^ΙΓΓοςσικυω νιοςεποιησεν(?)
Das delph. Epigr. V.3: μεαιτ PI t ΓΥΘια
Fig. 140.—Base inscription from Pharsalus.
ordered by Thessalian nobles ; and far more important
is the fact that, if the Pharsalus inscription has the priority,
the exaggeration of the number is inoffensive boastfulness,
and may perhaps even be excused as negligence ; whereas
if the Pharsalus epigram is put later than the Delphian,
and regarded as a modified copy of it, the substitution of
the number five for three is a conscious lie, which has no
point where, as here, it is a question of a series of victories
a century old, the exact number of which Aristotle had just
published.
But now we come to the most important point, the con-
clusion of the Pharsalian inscription. While there is not a
single artist's signature in the whole of the Daochus monu-
ment at Delphi, the base inscription at Pharsalus informs us