Supplying the lost words or letters the inscription runs as follows:— ἄνθετο µὲν µ’ Ἐπίδαυρος Ἀριστείδαο Φίλιππον Περγάµοθεν θείας κοίρανον ἱστορίας ἀγλάϊσαν δ’ Ἕλλανες ἐπεὶ πολεµογράφον αὐδὰν ἔκλαγον ἁµερίων κόσµον ἐπερχόµενος. * * * * * ἐγὼ παντοίων παθέων καὶ συνεχέος ἀλλη- -λοφονίης ἀνά τε τὴν Ἀσίην καὶ τὴν Εὐρώ- -πην καὶ τὰ Λιβύων ἔθνεα καὶ νησιωτέων πόλιας καθ’ ἡµέας γεγενηµένων ὁσίῃ χειρὶ τὴν περὶ τῶν καινῶν πρήξεων ἱσ- -τορίην ἐξήνεγκα ἐς τοὺς Ἕλληνας ὅκως καὶ δι’ ἡµέων µανθάνοντες ὁκό- -σα δηµοκοπίη καὶ κερδέων ἀµ[ετρίαι] καὶ στάσιες ἐµφύλιοι καὶ πιστὶω[ν] καταλύσιες γεννῶσιν κακὰ παρὰ [τῇ] ῥήσει παθέων ἀλλοτρίων ἀπενθή[τως] ποιέωνται τὰς τοῦ βίου διορθώσιας. English Version. “Set up in stone by Epidauros see, A peerless scribe of god-like history, Philip, the son of Aristeidas, come Unto this holy place from Pergamum: War was too long the theme of Greece; my pen Shrilled to ensue a peace for mortal men. * * * * * “All sorts of suffering and endless bloodshed having taken place recently throughout Asia, Europe, the Libyan hordes, the island cities, I publish to the Greek world, without breach of trust, a ‘History of our own Times,’ in order that my countrymen may learn, by my means, what hosts of evils arise from political charlatanry and financial greed, quarrels in a nation, and acts of treachery, and so, by the recital of other people’s miseries, may, without pain or grief to themselves, put their own lives in order, as occasions arise.” It is somewhat interesting to find the Boule of Epidauros thus doing special honour to a historian, and at the same time warning the Greek people against those political faults to which the nation was specially prone. The governing bodies of our health resorts do not show so large-minded an appreciation of letters or of political morals.[6] A number of the later inscriptions are in honour of distinguished Romans. There are numerous inscriptions regarding laws, or judicial decrees. Others, again, refer to the contests of the Stadium, while another and especially voluminous class relates to the construction of the temples and other buildings. In addition to the names of the architects and contractors, and the sums paid, these records contain many interesting details, _e.g._, the statement that the pediment groups and acroteria on the temple of Asklepios were cut in marble by Hektoridas and another artificer, from models designed by the great sculptor Timotheus, the artist who, along with Scopas, designed parts of the mausoleum of Halicarnassus.