claim on the regard of the Delians by helping them to recover their debts from the islands[1]. A wreath is voted to a poet of Andros named Demoteles, because "he has made the Temple his theme, and has commemorated the legends of the place[2]." A physician named Archippus[3], of Ceos, receives the honours of hereditary proxenia because he has served Delos "by his medical science, as in other ways." Antiochus III. (the Great) of Syria, and his son Antiochus Epiphanes, are among those to whom statues were raised at Delos during this period, and who are commemorated in extant dedications; also a certain Sostratus, who may possibly be the builder of the Alexandrian Pharos in the reign of the first Ptolemy; and Heliodorus, the false treasurer of Seleucus Philopator, whose miraculous punishment for attempted sacrilege at Jerusalem is mentioned in the Second Book of Maccabees[4]. Two different inscriptions, on the bases of statues erected by private persons (one, a Rhodian), commemorate Masinissa, king of Numidia, the ally of Rome against Carthage. They style him Βασιλέα Μασαννάσαν, Βασιλέως Γαία[5]. The MSS. of Livy give his
- ↑ See the inscription in the Bulleting de C. h. vol. iv. p. 327. Philocles πᾶσιν ἐπιμέλειαν ἐποιήσατο ὅπως Δήλιοι κομίσωνται τὰ δάνεια.
- ↑ πεπραγμάτευται περί τε τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ μύθους τοὺς ἐπιχωρίους γέγραφεν: Bulletin de C. h. vol. iv. p. 345.
- ↑ Ib. p. 349.
- ↑ Bulletin de C. h. vol. iii. pp. 360 ff.
- ↑ Bulletin de C. h. vol. ii. p. 400; vol. iii. p. 469. These inscriptions may be referred to 200–150 B.C.; whether they were earlier or later than 166 B.C. can scarcely be determined. The latter has Πολυάνθης ἐπόει (sic). The same sculptor's name occurs in an inscription of Melos, published by M. Tissot (Bulletin, vol. ii. p. 522), where we read, Πολυάνθης ἐποίησεν.
