[Footnote D:  In his Nummi Antiqui illustrati.]

Nor was This a single Inaccuracy in Sir George.  I’ll instance in Two pretty Inscriptions, the One an Epitaph, the other a Votive Table, which He has given Us, but in a very corrupt Condition.  Tho’ I have never been in Greece, nor seen the Inscriptions any where but in his Book, I think, I can restore them to their true Sense and Numbers:  And, as they are particularly elegant, some Readers will not be displeas’d to see them in a State of Purity.

    [Sidenote:  An Epitaph corrected and explained.]

VII. Of the Antiquities of Philadelphia_ (says he) I had but a slender Account; only I have the Copy of one Inscription, being the Monument of a Virgin, in these three Couplets of Verses_.  But she was so far from being a Virgin, that the Epitaph shews her to have been a Wife; that it was put up in Memory of Her by her Husband; and that she dy’d in the Flower of her Youth at the Age of twenty three.

  +Xantippen Akyla mnemen [1]biou paredoken
    Bomo [2]teimesas semno tauten alochon;
  Parthenon hes apelyse mitren ESDRION anthos
    Esken en hemitelei pausamenon thalamo. 
  Treis gar ep’ eikosious teleose [3]bion eniautous,
    Kai meta tousde thanen [4]toutou lipousaphaos.+

  [Notes: 
    1:  +biotou paredoken+.
    2:  +timesas semnotaten+.
    3:  +bious’+.
    4:  +touto lipousa phaos+.]

I have, for Brevity’s sake, mark’d the general Corrections, which I have made, at the Side.  The third Verse is neither true in Quantity, nor Language:  +ESDRION+ is a Monster of a Word, which never could be the Reading of any Marble.  As I correct it, we recover a most beautiful Couplet.

  +Parthenon, hes apelyse mitren; HES ERINON anthos
  Esken en hemitelei pausamenon thalamo.+

  Puellam, cujus Zonam solvit; cujus VERNUS Flos
  Praepropero tabuit in Thalamo.

    [Sidenote:  A Votive Table corrected.]

VIII.  I come now to the Votive Table, which is rich in poetick Graces, however overwhelm’d with Depravation:  and Sir George seems as much to have mistaken the Purport, as the Words, of the Inscription. At Chalcedon_, says he, I found an Inscription in the Wall of a private House near the Church; which signifieth, that Evante, the Son of Antipater, having made a prosperous Voyage, and desiring to return by the AEgean Sea, offered Cakes at a Statue, which he had erected to Jupiter, which had sent him such good Weather, as a Token of his good Voyage._