Page:On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos, in Rhodes, respectively (1878).djvu/7

Rh was a magistrate whose name occurs in several Rhodian inscriptions. That from Ialysos, which I publish in this memoir, begins with the heading 🇬🇷 In like manner a decree of the people of Lindos, edited by Foucart, Rev. Arch. N. S. XV. p. 207, commences 🇬🇷. But it would seem from a comparison of these three Rhodian decrees, that the 🇬🇷 constituted a board of magistrates, chosen by the 🇬🇷 for the regulation of various religious matters. Their authority must have been great, otherwise their name would not have preceded that of the demos, both at Lindos and at lalysos. They are also mentioned in another Rhodian inscription, Ross, Inscript. Ined. III. No. 271, 1. 18. Hesychios s. v. says 🇬🇷 where we must adopt Schmidt's restoration 🇬🇷. HrapokrationHarpokration [sic] s. v. 🇬🇷 states that there were 🇬🇷 in Pellene, citing as his authority Aristotle de Pellene republica (Fragm. 191, ed. Didot.) Harpokration in this passage considers the 🇬🇷 of Pellene as magistrates with functions analogous to the Attic 🇬🇷 and the 🇬🇷 elsewhere, and defines their office as 🇬🇷, and this is confirmed by the use of 🇬🇷 in the Andania inscription as the equivalent of 🇬🇷, and by the explanation of 🇬🇷 in Hesychios as 🇬🇷 (see Sauppe on the Andania inscription, p. 20, and Foucart on the same inscription, in Lebas, Voyage Archéol. Pt. ii. § 5. p. 172.)

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