[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. Ξαντίππην Ἀκύλα μνήμην [1]βίου παρέδωκην Βωμῷ [2]τειμήσας σεμνω ταυτην ἄλοχον‧ Παρθένον ἧς ἀπέλυσε μίτρην ΗΣΔΡΙΟΝ ἄνθοσ. Ἔσκεν ἐν ἡμιτελεῖ παυσαμενον θαλάμῳ. Τρεῖς γαρ ἐπ᾽ εἰκοσίους τελεῶσε [3]βιον ἐνιαυτοὺς, Καὶ μετὰ τούσδε θάνεν [4]τουτου λιπουσαφαος. [Notes: 1 βιότου παρέδωκεν. 2 τιμήσας σεμνοτάτην. 3 βιοῦσ᾽. 4 τοῦτο λιποῦσα φάος. ] 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: ΗΣΔΡΙΟΝ 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. Παρθένον, ἧς ἀπέλυσε μίτρην‧ ἯΣ ἨΡΙΝΌΝ ἄνθος. Ἔσκεν ἐν ἡμιτελεῖ παυσάμενον θαλάμῳ. Puellam, cujus Zonam solvit; cujus _VERNUS_ Flos Præproperô tabuit in Thalamô. [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 _Ægean_ 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._ [1]ΟΥΡΙΟΝ ἐπὶ [2]ΠΡΙΜΝΗΣ τις ὁδηγητῆρα καλείτω, Ζῆνα κατὰ [3]πρωτΟΝ ΩΝιστιον ἐκπετάσας [4]ΕΠΙ ΚΥΑΝΕΑΣ ΔΙΝΑΣ ΔΡΟΜΟΥΣ ἔνθα Ποσειδῶν Καμπύλον εἰλίσσει κῦμα παρὰ ψαμαθοῖς. Εἶτα κατ᾽ Αἰγαῖαν πόντου πλάκα [5]ΝΑΣ ἐρεύνων, Νείσθω‧ τῷ δὲ [6]ΒΑΛΛΩΝ ψαιστὰ παρὰ [7]ΤΩ ΖΩΑΝΩ. [8]ΟΔΕ τὸν [9]ΕΥΑΝΤΗ τὸν ἀεὶ θεὸν Ἀντιπάτρου παῖς Στησε [10]φιλων ἀγαθῆς σύμβολον εὐπλοΐης. [Notes: 1 Ὂυρον. 2 πρύμνης. 3 πρώτων, ἱστίον. 4 Κυανεαῖς δίνησιν ἐπίδρομον. 5 Νόστον. 6 βαλών. 7 ξοάνῳ 8 Ἐσδέ. 9 εὐανθῆ. 10 Φίλων. ]