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 INSCRIPTIONS xcvii i {iTTLKOLvdiVTo. = liTLKoivovvTaL, ' comiTiunicate vvlth/ or ' make inquiry of; vdoj = vafu,) — M. Carapanos, ' Dodone,' i. I p. 72; ' Hellenica,' p. 443. IV. Sepulchral inscriptions. The famous monument to the fallen of the tribe Erech- theis, mentioned on pp. xviii, xxvi, and referring probably to 01. 80. 2, 459-8 B. c, certainly to the events mentioned in Thuc. i. 104, 105, runs as follows (C. I. A. 433) — iv ^OLVLKT] iv 'AXievcriv iv ' Aiy lvi] Mcyapop] tov avrov iviavrov — then follow 168 names. C. I. A. 442 gives us a poem in honour of the 150 men who fell at Potidaea, Thuc. i. 63. The first two lines are given as conjecturally restored in Newton and Hicks ; the rest from C. I. A. aOdvarov fxe ^a[voi'crt X^P'-^ Oiaav' ol yap iv ottAois ? j <n]fjiaiv€iv aperyijv lifx^voi cr<]i€Tepav ?] Ktti 7rpoyovo)[v] a$evo<; ^iaOXov ivl aTyOeacriv €;^ovrcs] VLKTjv evTToXefxov p-y^p-' eXaySoj' [cr]^[€TcporJ aWrjp /x£v ifrvxa^ VTreBe^aro, aw[p.aTa Se ^^wvj TwvSe. IToT€t8tttas 8' a/x</)t Trv'Xas £S[a/Aei'J. i^OpoM' S' 01 p.lv e)(OV(Ti rdffiov p.ipo'S, 6[t Se (fivyovTe'ij T£t;^o? TTLaTOTCLTip' iXirlS' (sic) cOevTo [^touj avopa<; jikv ttoAis '^Sc TroOtt koi 8rj[p.o<; 'Ep€^6€<t)<; TTpoaOe IlorciSattt? o't 6dvov iv Trp[op.d)(oi^j ■jratSc? 'A0r}vai(DV, i/zv^^us 8' avTippo[7ra ^cVrcsJ i7[AA]a^aj'T' dpeTijv Ka 7raT[pt'8j (.vKXJ.iaav. Kirchhofif observes that the composition forms three small poems of four lines each. Many fragments are extant containing lists of names, often arranged under tribes, which seem to belong to monuments of those who fell in battle. One of these is mentioned on p. xvii. Two others commemorate cam- paigns recorded in Thucydides, though there are difficulties in fixing them to any precise occasion.