[30] e.g. Treaty between Elis and the Heraeans, about 550-500 B.C., from Olympia (Boeckh, C.I.G. 11, Hicks, 29, and others in Dittenberger-Purgold, Inschr. v. Olympia, 1-43); a similar bronze treaty from the Locri Ozolae (Dittenberger, I.G. ix. 334); bronze plate from Dodona, recording the victory of Athens over the Lacedaemonians in a sea-fight, probably 429 B.C. (Dittenberger, Syll. 2. 30).
[31] See Wünsch I.G. iii., App.; Audollent, Defixionum Tabellae (1904).
[32] See Karapanos, Dodone et ses ruines; Hoffman, Gr. Dial. Inschr. 1558-1598.
[33] What was done by Themistocles under stress of public necessity (Thucyd. i. 93) was done by others with less justification elsewhere; and from Byzantine times onward Greek temples and inscriptions were found convenient quarries.
[34] It appears from Cicero, De Legibus, ii. 26, 27, that the size of Athenian gravestones was limited by law.
[35] An index to the four volumes was long wanting; it was at length completed and appeared in 1877.
[36] See E. Hübner, Über mechanische Copieen von Inschriften (Berlin, 1881).
[37] Compare De Rossi, Bullettino dell’ instituto archeologico (1871), p. 1 sq.
[38] His works have been published by the French government in several volumes 4to (Paris, 1862 sqq.).
[39] For other details of numerical notation, fractions, &c., see the manuals of metrology.