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Of all the numerous inscriptions which throw light “upon the organization and activities of the ancient religious and social guilds, none is more valuable and none more vivid than that which contains the minutes of a meeting of the Athenian Iobacchi followed by acomplete text of the statutes which were then unanimously ratified. This document, originally published by S. Wide in A th. Mitt. XIX. 248 sqq., appears in a number of well-known and widely accessible collections—Dittenberger's S.I.G. 737, 1109; Roberts andGardner's Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, II. No. 91; Ziehen's Leges Graecorum Sacrae, II. 46; Michel's Recueil, 1564; and I.G. II. 1368—and has been discussed in detail by E. Maass (Orpheus, 14 sqq.), who republishes the text with a translation and commentary, and by E. Drerup (Neue Jahrbücher f. d. klass. Altertum, III. 356 sqq.).
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page 1 note 1 For a list of these seePoland, F., Geschichts des griech. Vereinswesens, 548–630Google Scholar. Since the pub lication of that work in 1909 the relevant materials have considerably increased.
page 2 note 2 See alsoKeil, B., Ath. Milt. XX. 446Google Scholar;Rohde, E., Kleine Schriften, II. 294 sq.Google Scholar;Wilhelm, A., Arch. epigr. Mitt. XX. 62, 68Google Scholar; E. Ziebarth, Das griech. Vereinswesen, and F. Poland, op. cit. passim; Harrison, J. E., Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, 475 sq., 656Google Scholar;Kroll, W.s.v. Iobakchoi in Pauly-Wissowa, IX. 1828 sqq., Berl. phil. Woch. XV. 1378 sq.Google Scholar;Mὒnscher, s.v. Herodes (13) in Pauly-Wissoioa, VIII. 942 sq.Google Scholar; Elter, A., Ostergruss d. Banner Universilἂt, 1916Google Scholar(inaccessible to me). There is a good photograph of the stone inKern, O., Inscriptiones Graecae, PI. 48Google Scholar(cf. p. xviii). For the date, which is usually placed shortly before A. D. 178, see Graindor, P., Chronologic des archontes atheniens, 179 sq.Google Scholar, where the evidence is examined and the views of other scholars are summarized. We, may add that Rohde, (op. cit. 294)Google Scholar assigns the inscription to the early third century,Drerup, (op. cit. 356)Google Scholar and Kern (op. cit.) to the third century,Ziehen, (op. cit. 136)Google Scholar and Roberts and Gardner (op. cit. 240) to the years 161–178, and Miss Harrison to the time ofHadrian, (op. cit. 475)Google Scholar.
page 2 note 1 Cf. 1. 83, μχρις ἄν ποδσιν; 11. 101, 105, μχρις ἄν ποοῖ.
page 2 note 2 I deprecate the introduction of the idea of a fine into this passage.
page 2 note 3 Occasional, as distinct from stated or periodic, festivals: see Wilhelm, , Arch.-epigr. Mitt. XX. 68, note 18Google Scholar.
page 2 note 4 Cf. 1. 30, εὐτονσουσι γρ οἰ προεσττες το μηδν αὐτν λυθναι.
page 2 note 5 εἱ has been inserted by Dittenberger and approved by Ziehenand Kirchner (I.G. II.2 1368).
page 3 note 1 Drerup, 363 sqq.; Ziehen, 142; Kroll, 1829.
page 3 note 2 LI. 39–41 constitute an apparent exception, μοως κα being substituted for δ. But this sentence really forms the latter part of the clause beginning ἒστω δ τ ισηλσιον (l. 37).
page 3 note 1 Drerup, 363 sqq.; Ziehen, 142; Kroll, 1829.
page 3 note 2 LI. 39–41 constitute an apparent exception, όμοίως καί being substituted for δ. But thissentence really forms the latter part of the clause beginning ἒσΤω δ Τό ίσηλύσιον (l. 37).
page 5 note 1 I reproduce the inscription as published by Calder, loc. cit., save that I write it in metrical lines and introduce punctuation.
page 5 note 2 A number of examples from inscriptions and papyri are collected byJannaris, A. N., Hist. Gk. Gram., § 36Google Scholar; and byMayser, E., Gratnmatik d. griech. Papyri, I. 110 sqGoogle Scholar.
page 5 note 3 Cf. βνος in an inscription from Saghir, published byRamsay, W. M. in Studies in the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire, 245, No. 25Google Scholar.
page 6 note 1 Mr. W. H. Buckler has suggested to me that the engraver mayhave intended to write δώμαΤα Μίνω (cf.Gaertringen, F. Hiller von, Hist, griech. Epigr. 104Google Scholar, Εἰς μακρων νήσους μεκαΤήγαγεν γχόθι Μίνως) and has pointed out that ‘in J.R.S. XVI. 61, No. 183A, the Christian (see p. 64) writer mentions the Muses and Christ almost in the same breath,’ so that there is no inherent improbability in the appearance of Minos in a Christian epitaph.
page 6 note 2 The word is usually masculine, but not infrequently feminine; in M.A.M.A. I. 199, 228, it appears as Τύ ΤίΤλον.