The third Verse is neither true in Quantity,
nor Language: +ESDRION+ is a Monster of a Word, which never could
be the Reading of any Marble. As I correct it, we recover a most
beautiful Couplet.
+Parthenon, hes apelyse mitren; HES ERINON anthos
Esken en hemitelei pausamenon thalamo.+
Puellam, cujus Zonam solvit; cujus _VERNUS_ Flos
Praepropero tabuit in Thalamo.
[Sidenote: A _Votive Table_ corrected.]
VIII. I come now to the _Votive Table_, which is rich in poetick
Graces, however overwhelm'd with Depravation: and Sir _George_
seems as much to have mistaken the Purport, as the Words, of the
Inscription. _At _Chalcedon_, _says he_, I found an Inscription in
the Wall of a private House near the Church; which signifieth, that
_Evante_, the Son of _Antipater_, having made a prosperous Voyage,
and desiring to return by the _AEgean_ Sea, offered Cakes at a
Statue, which he had erected to _Jupiter_, which had sent him such
good Weather, as a Token of his good Voyage._
+[1]OURION epi [2]PRIMNES tis hodegetera kaleito,
Zena kata [3]protON ONistion ekpetasas
[4]EPI KYANEAS DINAS DROMOUS entha Poseidon
Kampylon eilissei kyma para psamathois.
Eita kat' Aigaian pontou plaka [5]NAS ereunon,
Neistho; to de [6]BALLON psaista para [7]TO ZOANO.
[8]HODE ton [9]EUANTE ton aei theon Antipatrou pais
Stese [10]philon agathes symbolon euploies.+
[Notes:
1: +Ouron+.
2: +prymnes+.
3: +proton, histion+.
4: +Kyaneais dinesin epidromon+.
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