steady growth of that poet’s popularity as compared with Aeschylus and Sophocles. As already stated, the Didascaliae were inscribed in 278 B.C., but the record was kept up to date by contemporaneous entries for over a century subsequently. [Illustration: FIG. 76_b_.—Translation of Inscription in Fig. 76_a_.] In the archonship of Sosigenes (342/1 B.C.). Satyr-play: ⸺ was poet with his ⸺. Old tragedy: Neoptolemus acted in Euripides’ _Iphigenia_. Poets: Astydamas was first with the _Achilles_ acted by Thettalus with the _Athamas_ acted by Neoptolemus with the _Antigone_ acted by Athenodorus; Evaretus was second with the _Teucer_ acted by Athenodorus with the _Achilles_ acted by Thettalus with the ⸺ acted by Neoptolemus; Aphareus was third with the _Daughters of Pelias_ acted by Neoptolemus with the _Orestes_ acted by Athenodorus with the _Auge_ acted by Thettalus; the actor Neoptolemus was victor. In the archonship of Nicomachus (341/0 B.C.). Satyr-play: Timocles was poet with his _Lycurgus_. Old tragedy: Neoptolemus acted in Euripides’ _Orestes_. Poets: Astydamas was first with the _Parthenopaeus_ acted by Thettalus with the _Lycaon_ acted by Neoptolemus; ⸺cles was second with the _Phrixus_ acted by Thettalus with the _Oedipus_ acted by Neoptolemus; Evaretus was third with the _Alcmeon_ acted by Thettalus with the ⸺ acted by Neoptolemus; the actor Thettalus was victor.