Wordsworth, Christopher: Athens and Attica: journal of a residence (London, 1837)

.198 THE INSCRIPTIONS IN THE CAVE. [CHAP. XXV.

will perceive the following words on his right hand :
they are cut on the planed face of the rock there:
the letters are arranged in rank and file, (rroi-)(ti$6i>.

APX E A H M OZO<t>
HPAI0 5.0NVM*
O A H T TOJ 4>P A A
A IS I N V M^ON T
ANTPONEZHPT
AHATO.

Archedermis of Pher<z, the Nympholept, completed this
grotto, by the suggestion of the Nymphs.

It will be observed, that though in this inscrip-
tion the long e is introduced, the long 5 is not: and
that, since the conclusion forms an iambic verse, the
last word must be read (not e^tjpydcraTo, but) e^rfp-
•ydj~aTo, as the vestiges of the inscription themselves
suggest; a dialectic 'license, which is to be accounted
for by the Thessalian origin of Archedemus, in whose
honour this inscription was engraved.

The inconsistency in the orthography of the first
syllable of the word Pherse, the native place of Ar-
chedemus, which is observed in comparing this in-
scription with another in older characters, near the

1 Compare Elmsl. Med. 31. not. u. Matthiae. Eur. Iph. A. 406. Cp.

ew/fyigps in an inscription, Pashley's Crete, i. 140. We have two other

dialectic forms, Kairov and 'ApxeSapos, in another inscription found in

this cave:

'Apx* capos 6 $ep—

ttios Kairov Nv/x#-