Identifier: accountofdiscov00fell (find matches)
Title: An account of the discoveries in Lycia, being a journal kept during a second excursion in Asia Minor
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Fellows, Charles
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Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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XANTHUS. 1G7 SI AC AM El OYOEOYZANGOYrY MNACIAPXHCACTHC CEMNOTATHCrEPOY CIACTEAECACAEKAI ETEPACnAEIONACnO AEITINACAPXACTH nATPIAITONANAPI ANTAKATATAEHH ICMENAEKTU)NIAI WNANECTHCA* The following inscription is interesting from the in-sight which it gives as to the regulation of the games. KONTONAnOAAHNlOYAIZTOYZOA^AZOYZAN ©lONnATPOZKAinporo NnNBOYAEYTONAmiMI nation, (honoured) UlpiaPhila, who had become the wife of the excel-lent A melius Larichus. The honorary name of Metropolis, i. e. mother-city, whence colonieshave sprung, was often assumed by Greek cities of very little import-ance ; Xanthus, however, seems fully to have been entitled to it, stand-ing prominent in whatever we know of Lycian history, and beingcalled by Strabo (1. xiv. p. 666) the greatest city of Lycia. * Translation.— Having been of the god Xanthus and gym- nasiarches of the most worshipful Gerusia, and discharged also severalother public offices in my native city, I have, according to the decree,erect

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