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354 with polygonal masonry. He states that this place is still called Ægiros; but the situation does not the least correspond with the statement of Strabo that Ægiros was between Methymna and Mytilene.

$48$ In another of these inscriptions a crown is decreed by the tribe olis to Aristopahanes, son of Aristophon, on account of his public services. There is also mention of a temple of Athene.

$49$ Froissart, ed. Buchon, xiv. p. 52, et seq. Finlay, History of Byzantine and Greek Empires, 1854, p. 573. $50$ For the coins of this family see B. Köhne, Memoires de la Société d'Archéologie et de Niimismatique de St. Pétersbourg, iii. p. 475, and iv. p. 110; Pindar und Friedländer, Beitriige zur Munzkunde, p. 29.

$51$ In addition to these arms, there is sculptured on a wall, a shield bearing the arms of Gatelusio, impaling the eagle of the Empire, with an augmentation in chief too defaced for identification: two crowned lions are supporters. On another part of the wall are sculptured the arms of Bembo of Venice.

$52$ Engraved Stuart's Athens, iii. pi. 45.

$53$ This subject is repeated in the curious relief at Paros, engraved K. O. Miiller, Denkmaler d. a. Kunst, ed. Wieseler, Tav. 63, No. 814.

$54$ Archäologische Zeitung, 1848, p. 109*.

$55$ This inscription commences. The metrical lines which follow may therefore be the oracle itself

$56$ Transactions of Royal Society of Literatiure, 2nd series, London, 1847, ii. p. 258.

$57$ Since these remarks have been written, the site of the hill above Bournarbashi has been carefully examined by Mr. Calvert, who places here the ancient Gergithos (see his Memoir on the site of Gergithos, Archseological Journal, 1864, p. 48), and also by Dr. Von Hahn, who has made excavations here, and has discovered remains of an ancient acropolis, which he believes to be that of Troy. See his memoir, Die Ausgrabungen auf d. Homer. Pergamos. Leipzig, 1865.

$58$ In the former of these inscriptions, Claudius is styled Sodalis Titius, as well as Augustalis. His titles are identical with those in an inscription from Pola. Henzen, luscript. Latin. Collectio. Turic. 1856, No. 5399.

$59$ Poeocke, Travels, ii. pt. 2, p. 110.