Cunningham Memoir Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...with the vaoi of the Rosetta Inscription. The latter was a publio and official document, and why should such a fixed and notable thing be oalled by two different names. The interval of time between the texts is indeed 45 years, and the interval in space considerable also, but we should hardly expect such a variation. But as neither word can have any very different interpretation, and as the present ssupoi were to be set up on a house, I thing that my interpretation is not only possible, but very probable. CORRESPONDENCE OF APHTHONETOS, 241 B.C. of the letters are preserved. In 1. 21 only the tops are visible, hut I feel hopeful that my restoration is correot. The document is all but complete, viz. To A. the strategus from Philip and Ptolemy. We handed in to you a petition against Lysanias about the charges we have against him. But though you wrote to the epistatis about it, nothing has yet been done. We ask you, therefore, to summon us, and having inquired into our charges against him, to force him to do us justice. When this happens, we shall no longer be harried, and shall receive all kindness at your hands. We seem, then, to have stumbled on the papers of Aphthonetus, and can even suspect him of having been a dilatory official. In 1. 9 the word aKiui/itv must have occurred, but not at the end of the line. svTtv ic - rov ssamXewc ovofia is, I think, a formula hitherto not known, but I have found it elsewhere in the fragments. I will here call the reader's attention to the calm and businesslike nature of all these complaints. There is no abuse of the opponent; no violent language; nothing but a simple state meut tliat the complainant has been wronged, and is suffering, and now demands redress. With these .