following objections: (1) ‘contriving murder’ ranked with wilful murder in Attic law, and was tried by the Areopagus, not by the Ephetae[10]: (2) it is rightly maintained[11] that the presence of καί at the beginning of the inscription indicates that a portion is missing, and it is natural to assume that this missing portion contained the law relating to the graver kinds of homicide, including not only wilful murder, but also contriving murder. In order to obviate such objections, Philippi abandons the verb βουλεύειν and proposes to read βουλεύσεως τὸν ἀεὶ βασιλεύσαντα, ‘the King-archon for the time being shall judge concerning attempted murder.’ But this suggestion is open to the following objections: (1) we are compelled to render διαγνῶναι (l. 13) ‘to adjudicate finally,’ and we do not think that it bears this meaning in the inscription; (2) τὸν ἀεὶ βασιλεύσαντα is a very questionable Greek rendering for ‘he who is King-archon for the time being’: (3) while it is true that attempted murder was tried, in Aristotle’s time,[12] in the Palladium, it has no real affinity with manslaughter. It is impossible to suppose that the ‘appeasement’ mentioned in the inscription could have ever been applied in cases of attempted murder. It would be absurd to compensate relatives who had lost nothing, and to ignore the person on whose life the attempt was made. Demosthenes definitely cites[13] this law of ‘appeasement’ as referring to manslaughter. Hence, as we believe that the second line of our inscription refers to manslaughter and as λευσαντα (_sic_) is found in the unrestored part of the inscription, we propose to restore μὴ βου]λεύσαντα instead of ὡς βου]λευσαντα and understanding κτεῖναι with αἰτιᾶται, we translate ‘if anyone accuses a person of slaying without deliberate resolve.’ We will now suggest a translation of this passage, reading μή instead of ὡς in the second line.