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 (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, , and vare recorded in the inscription. Boeckh compares iv. 129 init. , and supposes the to have been metics enrolled among the citizen hoplites. 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,, 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.

The inscription is broken into two pieces, and is not written metrically.

483.

Also iv. i. 477 b.

And iv. i. 477 h.