(iv. 103 fin.), and that some trifling engagement, which is not mentioned by Thucydides, took place at Potidaea (ch. iv. 135), Sermylia (or Sermylè), and Singus. But such hypotheses can never be brought to the test ; it is therefore better to refrain from them.
The names of certain (
Greek characters), (Greek characters), and vare
recorded in the inscription. Boeckh compares iv. 129 init.
((Greek characters)),
and supposes the (Greek characters)to have been metics enrolled
among the citizen hoplites ((Greek characters)). But, again, such
combinations are hazardous, for an Athenian army would
probably be composed of the same elements on many
different occasions. We know of no one time at which
soldiers were falling at Potidaea, at Amphipolis, and at
Pylos. We are only sure that the inscription cannot be
earlier than the capture of Pylos, or later than the first
year of the peace, 421.
For the beautiful epitaph of Simonides on Archedice, the daughter of Hippias, see text, vi. 59.
C. I. A. 475, (Greek characters), might be
attributed to the time of the great plague, were not the
writing (
) too archaic.
C. I. A. 479, 483, are fragments of sepulchral monuments found among what are supposed to be the remains of the Themistoclean walls : —
479. (Greek characters)
The inscription is broken into two pieces, and is not written metrically.
483. (Greek characters)
Also iv. i. 477 b. (Greek characters)
And iv. i. 477 h. (Greek characters)
