subscript of ἀναγραφῇ is absent (as the copy indicates), this was doubtless a mere slip of the stone-cutter's. In v. 53 of this same document he has given us προγραμμένον instead of προγεγραμμένον: a Neo-Hellenic curtailment which we certainly should not find in a public document of the second century B.C.
Passing upward from the Roman to the Macedonian period, we note some points of interest in an inventory drawn up by the hieropoioi of the Delian temple[1]. This mentions a gift dedicated by Perseus before he was king (i.e. somewhere between 200 and 179 B.C.); and one of the most recent items gives the name of Lucius Hortensius, doubtless the praetor of 171 B.C. The inscription belongs, probably, to the very last years of free Delos, 171–166 B.C. It exhibits the diphthong ΕΙ used both for Η and for ΗΙ: thus ἐνειρόσια, ἐνεῖσαν ( = ἐνῆσαν): τεῖ as well as τῇ: στήλει as well as στήλῃ. The values of the objects are given in Attic terms (εἰς Ἀττικοῦ λόγον), but certain fractions are expressed in terms of the Delian copper currency (Δήλιος χαλκοῦς). The weight of an object is commonly denoted by the participle of ἄγω, or by the phrase οὗ ὁλκή, κ.τ.λ. But here we have a peculiarity,—the use of the neuter participle ἷκον even with a masculine noun; e.g. ἄλλον (ῥυμὸν?), ἔχοντα
- ↑ Bulletin de C. h. ii. 570.
