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 People to confer upon him such or such privileges. These are, in most cases, (i) the right of acquiring land and house-property in the island,—: (ii) exemption from taxes,—: (iii) precedence in the law-courts,—: (iv) the right of bringing private business before the Senate or People immediately after the affairs of religion,—. A rarer distinction is a place of honour at festivals—. Rarer still is the distinction of being publicly eulogized and crowned at the Apollonia (a festival distinct from the Delia, as another inscription shows )—when the sacred herald proclaimed the name of the person thus honoured. The decree usually adds that the recipient is to possess, all the privileges assigned to the public friends and benefactors of Delos.

Among the persons thus distinguished we find Pnytagoras, king of Salamis in Cyprus, and Philocles, king of Sidon, who had established a