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THE PAUE0UEAP11Y OF DIFFERENT NATlom. Sbd

Inscription on the base of an Honorary Statue on the Acropolis.

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J-tie Athenian People erects this Statue of Socrates, the Son of Socrates

of Tlwricus.

" The Sons of Athens, Socrates, from thee
Imbibed the lessons of the Muse divine;
Hence this thy meed of wisdom : prompt are we
To render grace for grace, our love for thine."

Wordsworth's Athens

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AION nOAYAEYKIONA innEA ANE0HKEN

EK TON IAION O 0PE*AE KAI <MA

HEAE Q2 YION TH NEME

EEIH MET AYTOY E0YEN EYME

NH KAI AIMNHETON TON

EAYTOY TPOMMON

Tliis inscription, found by Dr. Wordsworth at Rhamnus, records
the dedication by Herodes Atticus, who had a villa in the neigh-
bourhood, of a statue of one of his adopted children, Polydeucion,
to the goddess Nemesis.
 
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