CONTENTS. Page I. Ionic Inscription on a Bronze Figure of a Hare brought from the Neigh- II. Observations on some extraordinary Anecdotes concerning Alexander; and on the Eastern Origin of several Fictions popular in different Languages of Europe. By Sir WILLIAM OUSELEY, LL.D. Royal Associate R.S.L. III. Historical Notices of Nicomedia, the ancient Capital of Bithynia. By the V. Indication of an insititious Latin Term in the Hellenistic Greek, which has been inveterately mistaken for a genuine Greek Word. By GRANVIlle PENN, Esq. F.S.A. M.R.S.L. VII. Transcript of a Manuscript relating to Henry the Fifth of England, pre- served in the King's Library at Paris; with Prefatory and Supplementary VIII. On the meaning which is most usually and most correctly attached to the term "Value of a Commodity." By the Rev. T. R. MALTHUS, M.A. IX. Some Remarks on part of the First Book of Appian's Civil Wars of Rome (cap. 40. et seq.); together with an attempt to give a more accurate Gene- alogy of the Julian or Cæsarean Family. By the Right Hon. C. YORKE, WIMMEZOLV TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. I. Ionic Inscription on a Bronze Figure of a Hare brought from the Neighbourhood of Priene. By WILLIAM MARTIN LEAKE, Esq. Read May 17th, 1826. As inscriptions from Ionia, in the Ionic dialect, are extremely rare, that of which a copy is given in the annexed sketch, may not be uninteresting to the Royal Society of Literature: The letters are inscribed on the bronze figure of a hare of the same size and form as the drawing. This little relic of antiquity was procured by Mr. Cockerell at Samus, to which place it had been brought from the site or neighbourhood of Priene; it now forms part of the collection of Mr. Thomas Burgon, of Brunswick Square. The hare is represented as throwing back its head in the agony of death; and there is a hole in the left shoulder, VOL. I. PART II. A |