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LXoW'vLXo Boaropirrs ALovvao6wpos 'P68tos 'AroXXwvor MvtrXvaoLos Mo[Xirayb[plag B[ocfrlopir7s On epigraphical grounds the inscription would be dated between the beginning of the Ptolemaic dynasty and 260 B.c. To this period belongs an Athenian of the name of Epimachus who under Demetrius was engineer of the siegeworks against Rhodes in 305-4. There was a Tauron, a toxarch, in the army of Alexander who was personally known to Ptolemy, afterwards king of Egypt. Both Epimachus and Tauron could have joined the royal forces of Ptolemy in Egypt to look after the organization of troops of soldiers and workmen and the construction of the many great works of war and peace. We know also of a certain Lyson who was a contemporary of these men in Egypt. On a Bosporite inscription of this same period we find the name Molpagoras. These coincidences of time and nativity prove nothing conclusively, yet it scarcely seems possible that they are accidental. The form of the ethnic Booaroplrqs is probably the correct classical form. It seems likely that the inscription was originally part of a large votive stele erected

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1915

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Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)