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 while leave was to be asked from "the Athenians dwelling in Delos" to place a third copy "in the most conspicuous place" available within Apollo's temenos. The allusion to Homer's eulogy of Cnossus cannot be justified from our Iliad, but clearly refers to that passage of the Homeric hymn which describes how Apollo committed the service of his Pythian shrine to "Cretans from Minoan Cnossus" (Hymn. in Apoll 391–544). Here, then, is a fresh proof that, about 150 B.C, this hymn was still ascribed without question to 'Homer.'

The inscription adds some valuable illustrations to the forms of the Cretan dialect. Thus we have the acc. plur. : = :  = :  =, for : both  and  for. Among the verbal forms, = :  = :  =  in sense of, and similarly :  = , as if from , not :  = : and the remarkable  =. , with subjunctive, has the sense of, "in order that." At the end we read,. M. Homolle regards as 3rd pers. plur., but remarks that we should have expected the termination in -ν, comparing, C. I. G. 3050. I should take to be 3rd pers. sing., and the construction to be like that of Lysias in Eratosth. § 12,. In v. 18 there is a doubtful reading: M. Homolle gives