The _Greek_ Words are;
+lelektai de to drama touto triakoston deuteron+. i. e. "_This _Play_
is said to have been the _Thirty Second_, in Order of Time, produced
by_ Sophocles."
The Mistakes, that I have mentioned, (tho' they necessarily lead
into Error, from the Authority with which they come into the World;)
yet are such, 'tis obvious, as have been the Effects of Inadvertence;
and therefore I do not quote them to the Dishonour of their Learned
Authors. I shall point out Two or Three, which seem to have sprung
from another Source: either a due Want of Sagacity, or an absolute
Neglect of _literal Criticism_.
[Sidenote: Sir _George Wheler_ corrected.]
VI. Sir _George Wheler_, who, in his JOURNEY into GREECE, has traded
much with _Greek_ Antiquities and Inscriptions, and who certainly
was no mean Scholar, has shewn himself very careless in this
Respect. When he was at _Sardis_, he met with a Medal of the Emperor
_Commodus_ seated in the Midst of the Zodiack with Celestial Signs
engraven on it; and, on the other Side, a Figure with a Crown-Mure
with these Letters about it, +Sardis Asias, AUDIAS, Hellados,
1' metropolis+: __Sardis_, the first Metropolis of _Asia_, _Greece_,
and _Audia_._--But where and what _Audia_ was, (_says He_) I find
not. Now is it not very strange, that this Gentleman should not
remember, that _Sardis_ was the Capital City of _Lydia_; and,
consequently, that for +AUDIAS+ we should read +LYDIAS+? Tho' my
Correction is too obvious to want any Justification, yet, I find, it
has One from the Learned Father [D]_Harduin_; who produces another
Coin of _Sardis_ (in the _French_ King's Cabinet) which bears the
very same Inscription, only exhibited as it ought to be.
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