[Footnote D: In his _Nummi Antiqui illustrati_.]
Nor was This a single Inaccuracy in Sir _George_. I'll instance in
Two pretty Inscriptions, the One an _Epitaph_, the other a _Votive
Table_, which He has given Us, but in a very corrupt Condition. Tho'
I have never been in _Greece_, nor seen the Inscriptions any where
but in _his_ Book, I think, I can restore them to their true Sense
and Numbers: And, as they are particularly elegant, some Readers
will not be displeas'd to see them in a State of Purity.
[Sidenote: An _Epitaph_ corrected and explained.]
VII. _Of the Antiquities of _Philadelphia_ (says he) I had but a
slender Account; only I have the Copy of one Inscription, being the
Monument of a _Virgin_, in these three Couplets of Verses_. But she
was so far from being a _Virgin_, that the Epitaph shews her to have
been a _Wife_; that it was put up in Memory of Her by her _Husband_;
and that she dy'd in the Flower of her Youth at the Age of twenty
three.
+Xantippen Akyla mnemen [1]biou paredoken
Bomo [2]teimesas semno tauten alochon;
Parthenon hes apelyse mitren ESDRION anthos
Esken en hemitelei pausamenon thalamo.
Treis gar ep' eikosious teleose [3]bion eniautous,
Kai meta tousde thanen [4]toutou lipousaphaos.+
[Notes:
1: +biotou paredoken+.
2: +timesas semnotaten+.
3: +bious'+.
4: +touto lipousa phaos+.]
I have, for Brevity's sake, mark'd the general Corrections, which I
have made, at the Side.
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