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LETTER OF THE SMYRN^ANS. 629
office (ill. p. 407 sq).
So far as it
goes therefore, the fact that he is
not designated by the same title in the two places is favourable to the
credibility of this paragraph. Secondly ; he is described as a native of
Tralles. In illustration of this statement annotators and critics till
recently could only appeal to the fact mentioned by Strabo (xiv. p. 649 ;
see III.
p. 383) that owing to the wealth of Tralles its citizens were
has now been
frequently appointed Asiarchs. But a flood of new light
poured upon these and other points relating to Philip the Trallian l)y
inscriptions, in most cases recently discovered and in others recently
identified. These are as follows :
I.
H .
oAYMni[KHj . BoyAH
NON . TON
.
.
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